California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Forest fire lookout station atop mountain, Cleveland National Reserve, [s.d.]

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Forest fire lookout station atop mountain, Cleveland National Reserve, [s.d.]

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Photograph of forest fire lookout station atop mountain, Cleveland National Reserve, [s.d.]. At center, a small rectangular building can be seen sitting on the flat of a large mountain. Small, vertical windows can be seen along the middle of the wooden building, and two small horizontal windows are visible along the top of the two sides shown. A sloped, square roof covers the building, and a large American flag on a pole extends from the roof's apex. A wooden railing can be seen beside the building curving to the backside of the station and mountain. The large mountain below consists of many cut rocks and boulders. A small plant is visible along the mountain in the lower-left corner. Photonegative sleeve reads: "Cleveland National Reserve Forest Fire Lookout Station".

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Title Forest fire lookout station atop mountain, Cleveland National Reserve, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Mountains (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 18 x 13 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)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23280

Identifier 49538 (accession number), CHS-49538 (call number), CHS-49538 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23163 (legacy record id), chs-m23280 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23163

Unique identifier UC125369

Legacy Identifier CHS-49538.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 30.4 in × 41.6 in at 300dpi
77.2 cm × 105.8 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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