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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The painting "Planting Potatoes" by Millet, depicting a man and a woman gardening, [s.d.]
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The painting "Planting Potatoes" by Millet, depicting a man and a woman gardening, [s.d.]
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Photograph of the painting "Planting Potatoes" by Millet, depicting a man and a woman gardening, [s.d.]. The man is shown at left, bend over with the hoe as he tries to make furrows for the woman, who is pictured at right, to drop potatoes into. In the background, a donkey can be seen beneath a tree behind a bassinet which holds a baby. The rest of the background is flatland moving out into the distance. Millet's painting inspired "The Man with a Hoe", (a poem?) by Edwin Markham.
Asset Metadata
Title
The painting "Planting Potatoes" by Millet, depicting a man and a woman gardening, [s.d.]
Subject
agricultural sites
(adlf),
Art
(lcsh),
Art -- Millet, Jean Francois
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
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)
Creator
Millet, Jean-Francois
(artist),
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18267
Identifier
8839 (
accession number
), CHS-8839 (
call number
), CHS-8839 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18251 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18267 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14104 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), H-1662 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18251
Unique identifier
UC114159
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8839.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
50.9 cm × 39.5 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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