California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Death Valley Road near Bennet Wells, Death Valley, California, ca.1930

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View of Death Valley Road near Bennet Wells, Death Valley, California, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view of Death Valley Road near Bennet Wells, Death Valley, California, ca.1930. An early automobile loaded at the back with sacks makes its way across the desert via two deep grooves in the sand, precisely the width apart of car wheels. A third, more narrow groove can be seen on the mound between them, probably worn by car axles. Although most of the terrain in the foreground is just sand, low-growing vegetation extends from three quarters of the way up the photo towards the horizon.

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Title View of Death Valley Road near Bennet Wells, Death Valley, California, ca.1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Death Valley Road (roadway), deserts: Death Valley (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1930

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-m17871

Identifier 6868 (accession number), CHS-6868 (call number), CHS-6868 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17854 (legacy record id), chs-m17871 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), 1-27- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17854

Unique identifier UC113337

Legacy Identifier CHS-6868.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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