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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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A bridge over the Colorado River at the Needles, ca.1934
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A bridge over the Colorado River at the Needles, ca.1934
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Description
Photograph of a bridge over the Colorado River at the Needles, ca.1934. A continuous truss bridge over the Colorado River on brick pilings. Dusty hills peppered with low-growing vegetation can be seen to the left and the right. A freight train is passing across.
Asset Metadata
Title
A bridge over the Colorado River at the Needles, ca.1934
Subject
Boats and boating
(lcsh),
Bridges
(adlf),
Bridges
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Rivers -- Colorado River
(file heading),
rivers
(adlf),
rivers
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1929/1939, 1934
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
1934
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17906
Identifier
6980 (
accession number
), CHS-6980 (
call number
), CHS-6980 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17888 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17906 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14306 (
legacy record id
), 1-61- (
microfiche number
), J (
microfilm reel number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17888
Unique identifier
UC113460
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6980.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.4 in × 10.1 in at 300dpi
36.6 cm × 25.8 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
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