California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Stone Gods on display from prehistoric pueblo ruins near Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca.1895

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Stone Gods on display from prehistoric pueblo ruins near Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca.1895

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Photograph of stone Gods on display from prehistoric pueblo ruins near Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca.1895. The approximately 10 oblong stones are displayed on three levels at the end of tall storage/display cases. A light sticks out from the end of the shelf above them. Dozens more stone Gods lay on shelves in the background at right.

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Title Stone Gods on display from prehistoric pueblo ruins near Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca.1895

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject Indians -- Pueblo -- New Mexico (file heading), Indians -- Pueblo -- Pueblo villages, New Mexico (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), museum buildings (adlf), Pueblo Indians (subject), Pueblo Indians (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New Mexico (states), Santa Fe (city or populated place), Santa Fe (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm., 26 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)

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-m15586

Identifier 2659 (accession number), CHS-2659 (call number), CHS-2659 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14377 (legacy record id), chs-m15586 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13971 (legacy record id), 1-179- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14377

Unique identifier UC144028

Legacy Identifier CHS-2659.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.3 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
33.8 cm × 43.2 cm at 300dpi

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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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