California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Balcony Cliff house, Mancos Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, 1895

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Balcony Cliff house, Mancos Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, 1895

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Photograph of Balcony Cliff house, Mancos Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, 1895. The two-story well-preserved ruin is built back under a rocky overhang. The ends of posts forming the rafters holding up the second story are clearly visible extending beyond the face of the building. Another smaller building is visible behind.

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Title Balcony Cliff house, Mancos Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, 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 ; 17 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-m15522

Identifier 2594 (accession number), CHS-2594 (call number), CHS-2594 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14322 (legacy record id), chs-m15522 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13506 (legacy record id), 1-165- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14322

Unique identifier UC144178

Legacy Identifier CHS-2594.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.2 in × 10.2 in at 300dpi
41.1 cm × 25.9 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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