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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Aerial view of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
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Aerial view of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950. The roofs of multiple rectangular buildings can be seen at bottom. Roads curve around mountains which are visible above the buildings, while what appears to be a creek can be seen at left running over flat land towards a large mountain in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Aerial view of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
Subject
Deserts
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
deserts: Death Valley
(geographic subject),
Inyo
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900/1950
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1900/1950
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20924
Identifier
14222 (
accession number
), CHS-14222 (
call number
), CHS-14222 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25007 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20924 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14249 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25007
Unique identifier
UC130728
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14222.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
27.8 in × 20.8 in at 300dpi
70.7 cm × 52.9 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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