California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of a zanja, a water ditch, at the San Bernardino Mission Assistencia, ca.1900

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View of a zanja, a water ditch, at the San Bernardino Mission Assistencia, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of a zanja, a water ditch, at the San Bernardino Mission Assistencia, ca.1900. Several walls made of stones and mud (?) form a ditch that guides the water from the source to its destination, passing by woody areas. "The zanja was built in 1819-1820 by hundreds of Native Americans and Mexicans using the crude implements of that day. Built under the direction of the Mission Fathers, it originally was 7 miles in length and can now be traced for 5 miles. Taking waters from Mill Creek, part of it is still in use." -- Charles Puck.

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Title View of a zanja, a water ditch, at the San Bernardino Mission Assistencia, ca.1900

Subject hydrographic structures (adlf), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), San Bernardino County -- Mission and Assistencia (file heading), San Bernardino Mission (subject), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Bernardino (city or populated place), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8391

Identifier 8635 (accession number), CHS-8635 (call number), CHS-8635 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8708 (legacy record id), chs-m8391 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8524 (legacy record id), 1-134-6 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8708

Unique identifier UC138234

Legacy Identifier CHS-8635.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 41.6 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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