Woodsman posing in the Big Trees of Santa Cruz, ca.1900

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Photograph of a woodsman posing in the Big Trees of Santa Cruz, ca.1900. An elderly man with a bushy beard and large ears rests his body on the stump of an enormous tree. The man leans on his left elbow while holding the handle of a long ax with his left hand. The head of the ax sits on the ground beneath him while his legs extend to the left. The stump of the tree is seems to still be connected to the trunk in the back while the trunk hangs over the man creating a living mouth that seems to swallow the man.

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Title Woodsman posing in the Big Trees of Santa Cruz, ca.1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject forests (adlf), Forests and forestry (lcsh), Industry -- Lumbering (file heading), Lumber (lcsh), Wood products (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Cruz (city or populated place), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20646

Identifier 45869 (accession number), CHS-45869 (call number), CHS-45869 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24600 (legacy record id), chs-m20646 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12326 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24600

Unique identifier UC130400

Legacy Identifier CHS-45869.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.3 in × 14.7 in at 300dpi
49.1 cm × 37.3 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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