California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Figure standing at the edge of the dam of Mission Gorge, 1936

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Figure standing at the edge of the dam of Mission Gorge, 1936

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Photograph of a figure standing at the edge of the dam of Mission Gorge, 1936. The figure is shown in silhouette at center, hands on hips, partially obscured by a bush in the foreground. Farther in, a curved stone wall shows the dam which was used for irrigation on the mission premises. Mountains and scrub vegetation can be seen in the background, while to the right, a tree trunk can be seen in the extreme foreground.

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Title Figure standing at the edge of the dam of Mission Gorge, 1936

Subject dam sites (adlf), Dams (lcsh), Irrigation (lcsh), Missions -- Mission San Diego Alcala (file heading), San Diego County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1936

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, 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 1936

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8794

Identifier 9534 (accession number), CHS-9534 (call number), CHS-9534 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9163 (legacy record id), chs-m8794 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8927 (legacy record id), 1-128-47 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9163

Unique identifier UC138960

Legacy Identifier CHS-9534.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 41.5 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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