Pelicans at the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910

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Photograph of a group of more than 50 pelicans roosting on a dry desolate butte of the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910. This is "one of the dry desolate buttes of the Salton Basin, now [ca.1910] converted into an island by the waters of the overflow [from heavy runoff breaking the levee of the then under-construction Imperial Canal at the Colorado River]. In a few weeks after its being surrounded by water it became the nesting grounds of tens of thousands of pelicans." Dozens of pelicans are flying over the butte (blurred). The lake is visible at right and in the background.

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Title Pelicans at the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910

Subject Deserts (adlf), Lakes (lcsh), Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea (file heading), Pelicans (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), lakes: Salton Sea (geographic subject), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1910

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8125

Identifier 4317 (accession number), CHS-4317 (call number), CHS-4317 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8450 (legacy record id), chs-m8125 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14232 (legacy record id), 1-61- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8450

Unique identifier UC125944

Legacy Identifier CHS-4317.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 33.1 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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