California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Virginia City, Nevada, showing Mount Davidson in the background, ca.1930

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View of Virginia City, Nevada, showing Mount Davidson in the background, ca.1930

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

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Photograph of Virginia City, Nevada, showing Mount Davidson in the background, ca.1930. There is an empty ridge in the foreground, occupied solely by a man at right and a utility pole at left. The town is farther in the distance and is composed of a collection of rectangular wooden buildings and a handful of trees at right. The treeless mass of Mount Davidson looms over the town in the distance. Photoprint reads: "The famous mining town of the Comstock Lode.Mt. Davidson in the back (alt. 7827). There is said to be about 600 miles of tunnel and shafts under the town and mountain".

Asset Metadata

Title View of Virginia City, Nevada, showing Mount Davidson in the background, ca.1930

Subject Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Virginia City (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Nevada (states), USA (countries), Virginia City (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14064

Identifier 9828 (accession number), CHS-9828 (call number), CHS-9828 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13625 (legacy record id), chs-m14064 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113- (microfiche number), USC (project), 1-112-44 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13625

Unique identifier UC137924

Legacy Identifier CHS-9828.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 34.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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

Date Created 1860/1960