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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad station at Shoshone, ca.1900-1950
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Exterior view of the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad station at Shoshone, ca.1900-1950
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad station at Shoshone, ca.1900-1950. A wooden staircase leads to a wooden railway car at center. A ladder is visible in front of the car as well as railroad tracks which run from bottom left towards the right. "T.&T.RR. 507" can be seen painted on the front side of the car, while signs reading "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office" and "Giros(?) de Dinero Wells Fargo & Co. [?] en Mexico de Venta Aqui" can be seen on either side of the door above the stairs. A utility pole and desert trees are visible behind the car and in front of a second building at left. Mountains can be seen in the right background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad station at Shoshone, ca.1900-1950
Subject
Deserts
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh),
transportation features
(adlf)
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 ; 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
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-m20881
Identifier
8260 (
accession number
), CHS-8260 (
call number
), CHS-8260 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-24954 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20881 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14249 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
24954
Unique identifier
UC131130
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8260.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.5 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 41.6 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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