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Title
Cliff dwelling overlooking Montezuma's Well in Verde Valley, Arizona, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Contributor
Cooper, Lloyd
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the ruin of a cliff dwelling overlooking Montezuma's Well in Verde Valley, Arizona, ca.1900. The water in the well reflects a blurred image of the cliff. A horse-drawn carriage parked near the edge of the cliff top is partially obscured by a tree.
"Montezuma Well, near Camp Verde, Arizona, is fed by underground sources which are said to be over 800 feet below the surface. Its tremendous overflow of nearly two million gallons of water every twenty-four hours has cut through the wall, under the trees at the right, to form small caves in which prehistoric dwellers have left relics of their craft." -- Lloyd Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1934.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm., 15 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15517
USC-1-1-1-13506 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2588
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15517
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2588.jpg
Subject
Cliff Dwellers
Montezuma Well (Yavapai County, Ariz.)
Indians of North America
Cliff-dwellers
Dwellings
Cliffs
Physiographic features
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Arizona
USA
Yavapai
valleys: Verde Valley
Source
1-165- [Microfiche number]
2588 [Accession number]
CHS-2588 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Times (9 September 1934)
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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