California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Old road to Ibex Mines and Gnome's Workshop in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

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Old road to Ibex Mines and Gnome's Workshop in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

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Photograph of the old road to Ibex Mines and Gnome's Workshop in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950. A person can be seen at center to the right of a narrow dirt road running from bottom center towards the background. The person is visible facing left and is wearing a bandanna, pants, and jacket. Pointy, rocky formations can be seen at left on the side of a steep hill, while the formations are also visible at right. The road curves around a second rocky hill visible towards the right background, while tall mountains can be seen in the distance.

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Title Old road to Ibex Mines and Gnome's Workshop in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

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

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20818

Identifier 45886 (accession number), CHS-45886 (call number), CHS-45886 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24862 (legacy record id), chs-m20818 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24862

Unique identifier UC130931

Legacy Identifier CHS-45886.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
52.0 cm × 41.0 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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