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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Man sitting near Balanced Rock in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, 1898
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Man sitting near Balanced Rock in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, 1898
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Description
Photograph of a man holding his hat in his left hand near a group of a petrified tree logs in the Petrified Forest of Arizona. The most prominent one -- Balanced Rock -- sits atop a partially eroded earth mound. The surrounding landscape of small hillocks is dry and cracked.
Asset Metadata
Title
Man sitting near Balanced Rock in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, 1898
Subject
Deserts
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Parks -- Arizona -- Petrified Forest
(file heading),
Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.)
(lcsh),
petrified forests
(adlf),
Petrified forests--Arizona
(lcsh),
Trees, Fossil
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Arizona
(states),
petrified forests: Petrified Forest
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1898
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
1898
Creator
Cole, George
(reverend)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15498
Identifier
2566 (
accession number
), CHS-2566 (
call number
), CHS-2566 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-14771 (
legacy record id
), chs-m15498 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14226 (
legacy record id
), 1-87-9 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
14771
Unique identifier
UC144021
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2566.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.3 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.5 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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