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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View overlooking the town Sutter's Creek, showing the hills in the distance, ca.1930
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View overlooking the town Sutter's Creek, showing the hills in the distance, ca.1930
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Description
Photograph of a view overlooking the town Sutter's Creek, showing the hills in the distance, ca.1930. The centerground of the image is dense with trees and the roofs of residences. A few small buildings occupy the mid-foreground, with the rest filled by vegetation and post fence. The background contains tree-dotted hills which extend into the distance. Gold was discovered in Sutter's Creek in 1848. The creek crosses through the business section of the town.
Asset Metadata
Title
View overlooking the town Sutter's Creek, showing the hills in the distance, ca.1930
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Marshall, John
(subject),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Coloma
(city or populated place),
El Dorado
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13979
Identifier
20443 (
accession number
), CHS-20443 (
call number
), CHS-20443 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-13448 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13979 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14136 (
legacy record id
), 1-112-230 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
13448
Unique identifier
UC137606
Legacy Identifier
CHS-20443.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
15.1 in × 11.9 in at 300dpi
38.3 cm × 30.2 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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