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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Sign in front of an old road to Death Valley by Silver Lake southern road, ca.1900-1950
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Sign in front of an old road to Death Valley by Silver Lake southern road, ca.1900-1950

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Photograph of a sign in front of an old road to Death Valley by Silver Lake southern road, ca.1900-1950. At center a sign reading, "Warning. Do not attempt this route without ample supplies of water, gas, oil. Get information where supplies can be obtained, Auto Club of So. Cal" is visible on a wooden post. Desert shrubs extend up to mountains in the background. 
Asset Metadata
Title Sign in front of an old road to Death Valley by Silver Lake southern road, ca.1900-1950 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 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 ; 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) 
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-m20891 
Identifier 8261 (accession number), CHS-8261 (call number), CHS-8261 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24968 (legacy record id), chs-m20891 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 24968 
Unique identifier UC131122 
Legacy Identifier CHS-8261.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 16.7 in × 20.7 in at 300dpi
42.4 cm × 52.5 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960 
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