California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pacific Coast Borax Company at Death Valley Junction, California, ca.1900/1950

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Pacific Coast Borax Company at Death Valley Junction, California, ca.1900/1950

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Photograph of the Pacific Coast Borax Company at Death Valley Junction, California, ca.1900/1950. A long, dirt road loops around the front of the P.C. Borax Company building. An early covered automobile is parked alongside the front entrance way, which is supported by a colonnade of rectangular columns cut in a flaring decorative pattern at the top. On the other side of the road, a street lamp stands at the corner of a dirt lot, separated from the road by a concrete barrier. A second portion of the Borax Company building stands perpendicular to the main entrance in the right background.

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Title Pacific Coast Borax Company at Death Valley Junction, California, ca.1900/1950

Subject Borax mines and mining (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Deserts (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley (file heading), Pacific Coast Borax Company (naf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Death Valley Junction (city or populated place), Inyo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1900/1950

Creator Puck, Charles (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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3905

Identifier 6856 (accession number), CHS-6856 (call number), CHS-6856 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5695 (legacy record id), chs-m3905 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), 1-27- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5695

Unique identifier UC119396

Legacy Identifier CHS-6856.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
50.9 cm × 40.0 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

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