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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Entirely new channel cut by flood waters east of Compton looking north from Bosbyshell place, 1914
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Entirely new channel cut by flood waters east of Compton looking north from Bosbyshell place, 1914
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Description
Photograph of an entirely new channel cut by flood waters east of Compton looking north from Bosbyshell place, 1914. What appears to be a tree stump stands to the left on a bank in the foreground, while a wide canal of water snakes to the right and then left around a bend of land. A shape that appears to be the roof of a home can be seen farther in to the left.
Asset Metadata
Title
Entirely new channel cut by flood waters east of Compton looking north from Bosbyshell place, 1914
Subject
channels
(adlf),
Floods
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Compton
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Compton
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1914
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
1914
Contributor
Gillingham, Robert C.
(donor)
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-m2637
Identifier
12732 (
accession number
), CHS-12732 (
call number
), CHS-12732 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3548 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2637 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2700 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3548
Unique identifier
UC120564
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12732.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
21.0 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.5 cm × 42.6 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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