Coahuilla Indians cultivating their land at Torres, east of Palm Springs (or Martenus, near Indio), ca.1903-1904

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Photograph of Coahuilla Indians cultivating their land at Torres, east of Palm Springs (or Martenus, near Indio), ca.1903-1904. Two or three men drive horses pulling farming equipment through the fields. Two small structures, one of which is thatched, sits in the middle of the fields. A woman(?) is working in front of them. A wagon is visible at right. Mountains rise in the background.

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Title Coahuilla Indians cultivating their land at Torres, east of Palm Springs (or Martenus, near Indio), ca.1903-1904

Subject Agriculture (lcsh), Cahuilla Indians (subject), Cahuilla Indians (lcsh), Indians (subject), Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla (subject), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Mission Indians, Coahuilla -- Desert Subjects (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Indio (city or populated place), Martenus (city or populated place), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Riverside (counties), Torres (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903/1904

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1903/1904

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15394

Identifier 2299 (accession number), CHS-2299 (call number), CHS-2299 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14695 (legacy record id), chs-m15394 (legacy record id), 1-81-63 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14695

Unique identifier UC143741

Legacy Identifier CHS-2299.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.7 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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