Close
About
FAQ
Home
Collections
Login
USC Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
USC
/
Digital Library
/
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
/
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
/
Desert growth in unidentified foothills, ca.1900-1940
(USC DC Image)
Desert growth in unidentified foothills, ca.1900-1940
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Download
Share
Copy Asset Link
Request this asset
Description
Photograph of desert growth in unidentified foothills, ca.1900-1940. Various types of cacti and scrub bushes are pictured sloping down into a depression in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Desert growth in unidentified foothills, ca.1900-1940
Subject
Botany -- Cacti
(file heading),
Cactus
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Deserts
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Deserts
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900/1940
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1900/1940
Creator
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
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8786
Identifier
2689 (
accession number
), CHS-2689 (
call number
), CHS-2689 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9156 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8786 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14203 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14225 (
legacy record id
), 1-77-38 (
microfiche number
), 1-81-24 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9156
Unique identifier
UC138852
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2689.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.2 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
46.2 cm × 30.7 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
Conceptually similar
Lyon's well in the desert where water was sold, Colorado Desert, ca.1890-1900
Barrel cacti in the Colorado desert of California, ca.1920
Desert vegetation, [s.d.]
View of a patio built as a breezeway on a house in the desert, ca.1900-1930
Close-up of a barrel cactus on the desert in Havasupai Indian country, ca.1920
Navajo Indian standing alone on the Painted Desert, Arizona, ca.1900
Giant saguaro cacti on the Pima Indian Reservation, Arizona, ca.1900
A desert dwelling in Imperial Valley, California, ca.1900
Barrel cactus in the desert, [s.d.]
Buzzard's Rock in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, ca.1900-1930
Man with leggings standing near a Joshua Tree (Yucca Mohaviensis) in the Mojave Desert, ca.1904
Mud springs and great sink on Mojave Desert near Rosamond, 1904
Collection of wind-eroded rocks of Colorado Desert, 1904
A mesquite tree in the desert, ca.1903
A Joshua tree (Yucca Mohaviensis) in the Mojave Desert near Lancaster, 1904
The Sierra Madre Mountains, east of Saugus, ca.1900
Front view of house in desert, ca.1900-1930
Looking east from the Bright Angel Trail near the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, ca.1900-1930
Organ cactus in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920
Starting down the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon, ca.1900-1930
Similar tones
View images with similar tones