California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Stack of thirteen bars of gold bullion from mining done at Lida Mine in Willow Springs, Kern County, ca.1930

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Stack of thirteen bars of gold bullion from mining done at Lida Mine in Willow Springs, Kern County, ca.1930

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Photograph of 1089.93 ounces of gold bullion from mining done at Lida Mine in Willow Springs, Kern County, ca.1930. Thirteen slender sticks of gold bullion are stacked on a dark-colored stool. The result of an 110 hour mill run of 55 tons of ore.

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Title Stack of thirteen bars of gold bullion from mining done at Lida Mine in Willow Springs, Kern County, ca.1930

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Kern County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Kern (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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-m13991

Identifier 33137 (accession number), CHS-33137 (call number), CHS-33137 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13459 (legacy record id), chs-m13991 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14148 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13459

Unique identifier UC137485

Legacy Identifier CHS-33137.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.2 in × 19.9 in at 300dpi
41.1 cm × 50.5 cm at 300dpi

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

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