California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Red Rock Canyon showing a rock formation and two travelers, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

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View of Red Rock Canyon showing a rock formation and two travelers, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

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Photograph of a view of Red Rock Canyon showing a rock formation and two travelers, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950. At the bottom of the photo, a man in a light-colored shirt stands with his hands on his hips looking up, while a man in a dark-colored shirt to his right looks to the left, holding a walking stick. The rock formation behind them has deep grooves, but otherwise smooth surfaces, and a pillar has been made through natural erosion towards the left, supporting a layer of rock between it and the larger plane of the formation's right half. Boulders and rubble litter the sand around the travelers' feet.

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Title View of Red Rock Canyon showing a rock formation and two travelers, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

Subject canyons (lcsh), Deserts (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Parks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), canyons: Red Rock Canyon (geographic subject), deserts: Death Valley (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1900/1950

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-m17870

Identifier 6865 (accession number), CHS-6865 (call number), CHS-6865 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17853 (legacy record id), chs-m17870 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), 1-81-102 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17853

Unique identifier UC113309

Legacy Identifier CHS-6865.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.6 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
39.8 cm × 50.5 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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