Summary[
edit] Description: English: Close-up of a specimen of Ocotillo (Fonquiera Splendeus), or Candle wood, or Cane cactus, in leaf in the desert, 1906 Photograph of a close-up of a specimen of Ocotillo (Fonquiera Splendeus), or Candle wood, or Cane cactus in leaf the desert, March 1906. A cluster of snake-like stems covered in tiny leaves is shown filling the extreme foreground. Hilly terrain is visible indistinctly in the background. Call number: CHS-4260 Photographer: C.C. Pierce & Co. Filename: CHS-4260 Coverage date: 1906-03 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: 4260 Microfiche number: 1-77-90 Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-4260.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): deserts Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: 1906-03 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Legacy record ID: chs-m16726 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (file heading): Botany -- Ocotillo (Candlewood) Subject (lcsh): Plants. Date: March 1906 (date created). Source:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16659. Author: C.C. Pierce & Co.
