California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Nests of Mud Martins found in the granite rock approximately thirty feet high in San Luis Obispo County, August 1938

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Nests of Mud Martins found in the granite rock approximately thirty feet high in San Luis Obispo County, August 1938

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Photograph of nests of Mud Martins found in the granite rock approximately thirty feet high in San Luis Obispo County, August 1938. The tall rock seems to lean to the left with a sloping, grassy field below. The nests look like hundreds of tiny caves made on the side of the rock and they are generally clustered together. "Nests of the Mud Martins found in the granite rock approximately thirty feet high. These nests found on Swallow Rock in San Luis Obispo County. Piedra de las Golondrinas or Swallow Rock, a famous old time landmark, at west side of Morro Cayucos road. Mud Martinis have nested on this rock as far back as history goes. Granite up thrust about 30 feet. Photo August 1938. Elevation (ground) 130'. Located at mouth of Green Valley and opposite site of Jose Ramon Estrada adobe (no longer present), 3 miles south of town of Cambria (or Cambia?). Estrada owned Rancho Santa Rosa, which later became part of Hearsts' holdings. Cambria is on Ranco Santa Rosa".

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Title Nests of Mud Martins found in the granite rock approximately thirty feet high in San Luis Obispo County, August 1938

Subject Animals -- Birds (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Ranches (lcsh), San Luis Obispo County -- General -- Architecture (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Piedra de los Golondninos(Swallow Rock) (city or populated place), San Luis Obispo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1938-08

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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 1938-08

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6363

Identifier 12407 (accession number), CHS-12407 (call number), CHS-12407 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6455 (legacy record id), chs-m6363 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14319 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6476 (legacy record id), 1-75-13 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6455

Unique identifier UC116747

Legacy Identifier CHS-12407.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.3 in × 20.5 in at 300dpi
41.6 cm × 52.2 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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