California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Horse and wagon near the Rio Grande River on the road to the Indian Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico, ca.1889

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Horse and wagon near the Rio Grande River on the road to the Indian Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico, ca.1889

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Photograph of a horse-drawn wagon near the Rio Grande River on the road to the Indian Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico, ca.1889. The uncovered wagon carries three men along the narrow rutted dirt road. The calm river winds its way around low hills in the background.

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Title Horse and wagon near the Rio Grande River on the road to the Indian Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico, ca.1889

Subject Horses (lcsh), Indians -- Taos (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), rivers (lcsh), rivers (adlf), roadways (adlf), Taos Indians (lcsh), Wagons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New Mexico (states), rivers: Rio Grande River (geographic subject), Taos (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1889

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1889

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15556

Identifier 2623 (accession number), CHS-2623 (call number), CHS-2623 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14351 (legacy record id), chs-m15556 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13993 (legacy record id), 1-182-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14351

Unique identifier UC144189

Legacy Identifier CHS-2623.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.4 in × 9.3 in at 300dpi
34.1 cm × 23.8 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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