View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930. A wide dirt road is shown at center, dipping down a gentle incline into the distance. One- to two-story commercial shops line the street to either side, with parked automobiles standing in front of them. Occasional trees appear intermittantly along the roadside. The adobe to the left if the old court of the camp. The El Dorado Hotel is the second building on the right.; Legible signs from left to right include: "[...] Place", "New [...]", "Calaveras Meat Market", "Electric [...] Repair Shop. Auto Curtains Repaired" and "Vulcanizing".

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Title View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930

Subject El Dorado Hotel (subject), Mining -- Calaveras County -- Angel's Camp (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Angel's Camp (city or populated place), Calaveras (counties), California (states), Motherlode Highway (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1930

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20059

Identifier 20270 (accession number), CHS-20270 (call number), CHS-20270 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19876 (legacy record id), chs-m20059 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14128 (legacy record id), 1-112-62 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19876

Unique identifier UC122167

Legacy Identifier CHS-20270.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 41.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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