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Flooding in Palm Springs, 1958
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Flooding in Palm Springs, 1958
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Description
Photograph of flooding on the road between Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs, 1958. A line of automobiles drive over the dirt-covered road as water spills over its surface from the left. The water continues across the street to the fields at right. Electrical poles line either side of the road. Photoprint reads: "gift: Longmont Pioneer Museum, Boulder County, Colorado, 1980."
Asset Metadata
Title
Flooding in Palm Springs, 1958
Subject
Floods
(lcsh),
Riverside County -- Palm Springs
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Desert Hot Springs
(city or populated place),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1958
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1958
Contributor
Longmont Pioneer Museum (donated 1980)
(donor)
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-m8151
Identifier
42995 (
accession number
), CHS-42995 (
call number
), CHS-42995 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8476 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8151 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-8282 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8476
Unique identifier
UC125901
Legacy Identifier
CHS-42995.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.6 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
49.8 cm × 40.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Description
The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.
We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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