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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Horse-drawn buggy on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900
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Horse-drawn buggy on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of an empty wagon drawn by 2 horses standing on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900. The Crescent or creeping hills of sand move from one day to the next along with the prevailing winds.
Asset Metadata
Title
Horse-drawn buggy on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900
Subject
Deserts
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr.
(subject),
James, George Wharton
(subject),
Natural features -- Deserts
(file heading),
Riverside County -- General -- Desert views
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, 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-m8140
Identifier
1975 (
accession number
), CHS-1975 (
call number
), CHS-1975 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8465 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8140 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14225 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8271 (
legacy record id
), 1-81-13 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8465
Unique identifier
UC125595
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1975.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.0 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 36.7 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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