File:Shell mountain of prehistoric oysters (CHS-2701).jpg

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Shell mountain of prehistoric oysters
Photograph of "Shell Mountain" -- a prehistoric oyster bed -- near the Mexican border, south of the road from Campo to Imperial Valley, ca. December 1904; or in the Salton Sea, near Palm Springs, Riverside County, ca.1920.
Filename: CHS-2701
Subject (file heading): Riverside County -- Salton Sea; San Diego County -- General
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: 2701
Microfiche number: 1-80-15
Archival file: chs_Volume62/CHS-2701.tiff
Coverage date: circa 1904-12; circa 1920
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, 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
Call number: CHS-2701
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m8123; USC-1-1-1-8254; USC-1-1-1-8946
Geographic subject: valleys: Imperial Valley
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): San Diego; Riverside
Subject (lcsh): Views; Oysters; Fossils
Date circa 1920
date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8448
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