California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of a Santa Ana tin mine in Trabuco Canyon, March 20, 1903

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Exterior view of a Santa Ana tin mine in Trabuco Canyon, March 20, 1903

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Photograph of an exterior view of a Santa Ana tin mine in Trabuco Canyon, March 20, 1903. The ore house and mill. The mine was owned by Gail Borden, III. Several men are standing in front of one of the large wooden buildings in the foreground. Smoke blows right from a tall smokestack. A mine opening is visible beside a narrow road cut into the rocky slope behind the buildings.

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Title Exterior view of a Santa Ana tin mine in Trabuco Canyon, March 20, 1903

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Orange County (file heading), Tin industry (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), Santa Ana (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903-03-20

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1903-03-20

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-m7852

Identifier 2223 (accession number), CHS-2223 (call number), CHS-2223 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8085 (legacy record id), chs-m7852 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14172 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7979 (legacy record id), 1-111- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8085

Unique identifier UC124488

Legacy Identifier CHS-2223.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.0 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
38.1 cm × 47.8 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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