California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

North side of Bass Ferry, looking down into Havasu Canyon below Mooney Falls, Grand Canyon, 1900-1930

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North side of Bass Ferry, looking down into Havasu Canyon below Mooney Falls, Grand Canyon, 1900-1930

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Photograph of the north side of Bass Ferry, looking down into Havasu Canyon below Mooney Falls (Money? Falls), Grand Canyon, 1900-1930. The steep rocky slopes above the vertical rock face of Havasu Canyon join with more vertical rock faces above before topping out with rock formations shaped by erosion. Some of the slopes are dotted with trees. The distant canyon wall is bathed in sunlight.

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Title North side of Bass Ferry, looking down into Havasu Canyon below Mooney Falls, Grand Canyon, 1900-1930

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900/1930

Subject canyons (lcsh), canyons (adlf), Natural features -- Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Bass (camp, ferry, Mystic Springs, tomb, trail) (file heading), Natural features -- Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Mooney Falls (file heading), Parks (lcsh), Waterfalls (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place canyons: Grand Canyon (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 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)

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-m15977

Identifier 3335 (accession number), CHS-3335 (call number), CHS-3335 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14668 (legacy record id), chs-m15977 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14264 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14267 (legacy record id), 1-91-225 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14668

Unique identifier UC144401

Legacy Identifier CHS-3335.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.3 cm × 32.8 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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