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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Spruce Tree Cliff house at Mesa Verde National park in Manco Canyon, Colorado, 1895
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Spruce Tree Cliff house at Mesa Verde National park in Manco Canyon, Colorado, 1895
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Description
Photograph of the Spruce Tree Cliff house at Mesa Verde National park in Manco Canyon, Colorado, 1895. At right, the ruins of the brick dwellings are visible constructed under an overhang of rock. Some desert foliage can be seen in the left foreground, while the upper edge of the rock face is visible behind them.
Asset Metadata
Title
Spruce Tree Cliff house at Mesa Verde National park in Manco Canyon, Colorado, 1895
Subject
Cliff Dwellers
(file heading),
Cliff-dwellers
(lcsh),
cliffs
(lcsh),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
tribal areas
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
canyons: Mancos Canyon
(geographic subject),
Colorado
(states),
Montezuma
(counties),
parks: Mesa Verde National Park
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1895
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 21 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
1895
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-m15531
Identifier
2603 (
accession number
), CHS-2603 (
call number
), CHS-2603 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-14783 (
legacy record id
), chs-m15531 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13506 (
legacy record id
), 1-165- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
14783
Unique identifier
UC143895
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2603.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 14.0 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 35.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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