California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Approximately nine palm trees growing in Murray Canyon near Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Approximately nine palm trees growing in Murray Canyon near Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Photograph of approximately nine palm trees growing in Murray Canyon near Palm Springs, ca.1903. The tallest palm stands at center, just behind the fronds of a shorter tree in the foreground. In the background, two trees are distributed to the left, and five others to the right, just in front of rocky, mountainous terrain. Scrub vegetation covers the mountain face in the foreground.

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Title Approximately nine palm trees growing in Murray Canyon near Palm Springs, ca.1903

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1903

Subject Botany (lcsh), Botany -- Trees -- Palm (file heading), canyons (adlf), Palms (lcsh), Riverside County -- General -- Canyons (file heading), Trees (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), canyons: Murray Canyon (geographic subject), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 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)

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-m8078

Identifier 2275 (accession number), CHS-2275 (call number), CHS-2275 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8404 (legacy record id), chs-m8078 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14295 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8209 (legacy record id), 1-86-36 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8404

Unique identifier UC125605

Legacy Identifier CHS-2275.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.1 in × 18.0 in at 300dpi
36.0 cm × 45.9 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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