California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Indian cliff dwellings -- Mummy Cliff House -- in Canyon de Chelly or Canyon del Muerto, ca.1895

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Indian cliff dwellings -- Mummy Cliff House -- in Canyon de Chelly or Canyon del Muerto, ca.1895

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Photograph of Indian cliff dwellings -- Mummy Cliff House -- in Canyon de Chelly or Canyon del Muerto near two undercut arched openings in the cliff wall, ca.1895. A few scraggly trees grow in the foreground. Rocks are scattered across the ground behind the trees while the clay-like cliffs stand across the background. The cliff dwellings can be seen at the base of the cliffs at their center.

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Title Indian cliff dwellings -- Mummy Cliff House -- in Canyon de Chelly or Canyon del Muerto, ca.1895

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject Cliff Dwellers (file heading), Cliff-dwellers (lcsh), cliffs (lcsh), cliffs (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Indians of North America (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Apache (counties), canyons: Canyon de Chelly (geographic subject), canyons: Canyon del Muerto (geographic subject), New Mexico (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15489

Identifier 2546 (accession number), CHS-2546 (call number), CHS-2546 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14299 (legacy record id), chs-m15489 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13506 (legacy record id), 1-165- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14299

Unique identifier UC144138

Legacy Identifier CHS-2546.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.2 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
41.3 cm × 31.9 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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