Cliff dwelling overlooking Montezuma's Well in Verde Valley, Arizona, ca.1900

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Photograph of the ruin of a cliff dwelling overlooking Montezuma's Well in Verde Valley, Arizona, ca.1900. The water in the well reflects a blurred image of the cliff.; "Montezuma Well, near Camp Verde, Arizona, is fed by underground sources which are said to be over 800 feet below the surface. Its tremendous overflow of nearly two million gallons of water every twenty-four hours has cut through the wall, under the trees at the right, to form small caves in which prehistoric dwellers have left relics of their craft." -- Lloyd Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1934.

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Title Cliff dwelling overlooking Montezuma's Well in Verde Valley, Arizona, ca.1900

Subject archaeological sites (adlf), Cliff Dwellers (file heading), Cliff-dwellers (lcsh), cliffs (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Indians of North America (lcsh), Montezuma Well (Yavapai County, Ariz.) (lcsh), physiographic features (adlf), wells (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), USA (countries), Verde Valley (city or populated place), Yavapai (counties)

Temporal Subject 1900

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)

Relation References Los Angeles Times (9 September 1934). (references)

Date Created 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Cooper, Lloyd (contributor)

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-m15879

Identifier 3219 (accession number), CHS-3219 (call number), CHS-3219 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14593 (legacy record id), chs-m15879 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13506 (legacy record id), 1-165- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14593

Unique identifier UC144388

Legacy Identifier CHS-3219.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 33.2 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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