California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Dante's view of Death Valley showing Telescope Peak with snow, ca.1900-1950

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Dante's view of Death Valley showing Telescope Peak with snow, ca.1900-1950

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Photograph of Dante's view of Death Valley showing Telescope Peak with snow, ca.1900-1950. Two men and what appears to be a woman holding a dog can be seen on the side of a hill at right. The man on the far left has a beard and wears a hat, while the man on the far right can be seen pointing. Snow-topped mountains are visible in the background beyond an expansive valley.

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Title Dante's view of Death Valley showing Telescope Peak with snow, ca.1900-1950

Subject canyons (lcsh), Deserts (lcsh), Deserts (adlf), Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), deserts: Death Valley (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 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

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-m20794

Identifier 45876 (accession number), CHS-45876 (call number), CHS-45876 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24829 (legacy record id), chs-m20794 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24829

Unique identifier UC130935

Legacy Identifier CHS-45876.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
51.6 cm × 41.1 cm at 300dpi

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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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