Pelicans at the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910 (CHS-4321)

Pelicans at the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910
Photograph of a group of more than 100 pelicans roosting on a rocky shore of the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910. This is "one of the dry desolate buttes of the Salton Basin, now [ca.1910] converted into an island by the waters of the overflow [from heavy runoff breaking the levee of the then under-construction Imperial Canal at the Colorado River]. In a few weeks after its being surrounded by water it became the nesting grounds of tens of thousands of pelicans." Hundreds of pelicans in the background on the water or shore.
Call number: CHS-4321
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-4321
Coverage date: circa 1910
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: 4321
Microfiche number: 1-61-
Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-4321.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 21 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): deserts
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea
Legacy record ID: chs-m16749; USC-1-1-1-14232
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Riverside
Subject (lcsh): Lakes; Pelicans