Ruins from an abandoned house on the road into Death Valley from Baker, ca.1900-1950

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Photograph of ruins from an abandoned house on the road into Death Valley from Baker, ca.1900-1950. At center, portions of stone walls can be seen on desert terrain. A tire leans against the front of the building, while rubble can be seen inside the walls. Open land is visible behind the building up to a mountain range with snow-covered peaks.

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Title Ruins from an abandoned house on the road into Death Valley from Baker, 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 ; 17 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20886

Identifier 10165 (accession number), CHS-10165 (call number), CHS-10165 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24960 (legacy record id), chs-m20886 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24960

Unique identifier UC130827

Legacy Identifier CHS-10165.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.6 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
70.2 cm × 46.7 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

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