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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line, ca.1904
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Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line, ca.1904
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Description
Photograph of a group of about seven people making camp at Indian Wells on the old Butterfield Stage Line, east of Palm Springs, west of Indio. Three men (including Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.) sit on two camp benches in the foreground. Also in the image is Carl Eytel, artist. A tent is erected near one a wagon and a grazing horse or mule in the background at left. Another wagon sits near a blanket, tent canvas, rug, or bedroll in the foreground at right. The well is visible in the background. Scrub brush is the primary vegetation in the background.
Note: originally, the photograph was captured as "Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterworth Stage Line, ca.1904".
Asset Metadata
Title
Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line, ca.1904
Subject
Butterfield Stage Line
(subject),
Deserts
(adlf),
Eytel, Carl
(subject),
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr.
(subject),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Riverside County -- General -- Desert views
(file heading),
wells
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1904
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1904
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-m8136
Identifier
2283 (
accession number
), CHS-2283 (
call number
), CHS-2283 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8461 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8136 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8267 (
legacy record id
), 1-81-62 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8461
Unique identifier
UC125643
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2283.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.4 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
41.7 cm × 34.3 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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