Salton Sea view of Superstition Mountain and Indian dwellings, ca.1900

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Photograph of two Indian mud wigwams on Superstition Mountain in the Colorado Desert south of the Salton Sea, ca.1900. Dimples can be seen in the smooth sand across the foreground. Small plants spot the lightly-colored ground further back while relatively sedimentary rock structures stand across the background.

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Title Salton Sea view of Superstition Mountain and Indian dwellings, ca.1900

Subject Indians of North America (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Riverside County -- Salton Sea (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1900

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-m8133

Identifier 1964 (accession number), CHS-1964 (call number), CHS-1964 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8458 (legacy record id), chs-m8133 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8264 (legacy record id), 1-36- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8458

Unique identifier UC125594

Legacy Identifier CHS-1964.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
48.6 cm × 36.8 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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