California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Indian well at Martinez, showing the heavy vegetation around it, ca.1903

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Indian well at Martinez, showing the heavy vegetation around it, ca.1903

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Photograph of the Coahuilla Indian well at Martinez, showing the heavy vegetation around it, ca.1903. A short, dirt wall stands at left while a hole appears to have been dug out at center. Tall bushes and plants stand over the area from all sides. A group of sticks indicates the well at center the center of the area.

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Title Indian well at Martinez, showing the heavy vegetation around it, ca.1903

Subject Cahuilla Indians (subject), Cahuilla Indians (lcsh), Coahuilla, Mission Indians (subject), Indians (subject), Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Irrigation (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Martinez (city or populated place), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1903

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-m8129

Identifier 2310 (accession number), CHS-2310 (call number), CHS-2310 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8454 (legacy record id), chs-m8129 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13920 (legacy record id), 1-172- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8454

Unique identifier UC125618

Legacy Identifier CHS-2310.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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