An unidentified grave at the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, ca.1929

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Title An unidentified grave at the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, ca.1929

Description Photograph of an unidentified grave at the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, ca.1929. One of only hundreds of graves at Boot Hill, the grave is surrounded by an ironwork fence. The three iron crosses visible in the extreme left background were erected in 1929 and are made from gaslamp posts used in San Francisco. They bear the date of 1862. Out of the 20 acres of graves at Boothill, some of which are only large hills of rocks, only one has a name.; Picture file card reads: "Boot Hill Cemetary contains hundreds of graves, but in 20 acres only one has a name. Most of the graves have only a large hill of rocks. The three iron crosses were erected in 1929 and are reconstructed gaslamp posts used in San Francisco in the early days -- they bear date of 1862".; Photoprint reads: "Called Boot Hill Cemetery because most of the men died with their boots on".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1929

Subject Arizona -- General (file heading), Cemeteries (lcsh), Cemeteries (adlf), Ironwork (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Tombstone (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1929

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

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-m3771

Identifier 6283 (accession number), CHS-6283 (call number), CHS-6283 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5627 (legacy record id), chs-m3771 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14004 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3854 (legacy record id), 1-219- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5627

Unique identifier UC119315

Legacy Identifier CHS-6283.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
42.8 cm × 34.1 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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