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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Devil's Playground in Palm Springs, showing a barrel cactus and mountains, ca.1900
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View of Devil's Playground in Palm Springs, showing a barrel cactus and mountains, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of a view of Devil's Playground in Palm Springs, showing a barrel cactus and mountains, ca.1900. The large, cylindrical cactus is pictured in the extreme right foreground, while other cacti and desert vegetation can be seen in the background. In the distance, mountains can be seen.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Devil's Playground in Palm Springs, showing a barrel cactus and mountains, ca.1900
Subject
Deserts
(adlf),
Riverside County -- General -- Desert views
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
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
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8105
Identifier
10156 (
accession number
), CHS-10156 (
call number
), CHS-10156 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8430 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8105 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8236 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8430
Unique identifier
UC125573
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10156.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.1 in × 19.9 in at 300dpi
41.0 cm × 50.7 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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