California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Red Rock Canyon with a man standing at the foot of cliffs, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

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View of Red Rock Canyon with a man standing at the foot of cliffs, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

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Photograph of a view of Red Rock Canyon with a man standing at the foot of cliffs, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950. The silhouette of a man standing on the ground at center is dwarfed by the massive rock face behind him, approximately thirty times his size. At center, a large, smooth pillar of rock with a beveled edge extends up into the rock face of which it is a part. It is flanked to either side by columns of flute rock formations, which rise to the softer soil piled on top of the rock face where low-growing vegetation can be seen.

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Title View of Red Rock Canyon with a man standing at the foot of cliffs, Death Valley, California, ca.1900/1950

Subject canyons (adlf), canyons (lcsh), Deserts (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley (file heading), 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 ; 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 1900/1950

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17868

Identifier 6863 (accession number), CHS-6863 (call number), CHS-6863 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17851 (legacy record id), chs-m17868 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), 1-81-100 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17851

Unique identifier UC113315

Legacy Identifier CHS-6863.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.3 in × 15.3 in at 300dpi
49.0 cm × 38.9 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

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