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File:The Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950 (CHS-3423).jpg

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The Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950
Photograph of the Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950. A steep rocky embankment looms in shadow at left. A tide mark is visible on the nearly vertical wall near the water line. A flat shoreline with a jagged profile fronts the river at right. Across the placid river and in the distance rocky hills rise.
Call number: CHS-3423
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-3423
Coverage date: 1900/1950
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3423
Microfiche number: 1-61-
Archival file: chs_Volume95/CHS-3423.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1900/1950
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m16049; USC-1-1-1-14306
Geographic subject: rivers: Colorado River; deserts: Mojave Desert
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Rivers -- Colorado River
Subject (lcsh): Rivers
Date 1900/1950 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15990
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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