Exterior view of I.O.O.F. Hall in Mokelumne City, ca.1930

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Photograph of an exterior view of I.O.O.F. (Order of Odd Fellows) Hall in Mokelumne City, ca.1930. Several doors and rectangular windows can be seen in the shade of a porch other first floor of the large, brick building. The four rectangular windows of the second floor have open shutters, but the four on the third floor are closed. A plant stands just outside on the left where a shorter building protrudes out of the I.O.O.F. building. On the right, an automobile is parked next to what appears to be a gas pump in front of the Peek Hotel. What appears to be a tow truck can be seen in the foreground on the left.; Picture file card reads "The I.O.O.F. Hall was claimed to be the second highest building in California. When it was built in 1854, the other tall one was the Perrot Building (three stories), 1852, which was in San Francisco but has long since disappeared leaving the Mokelumne the oldest three story in the state".

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Title Exterior view of I.O.O.F. Hall in Mokelumne City, ca.1930

Subject buildings (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Calaveras County -- Mokelumne City (file heading), Order of Odd Fellows Hall (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Calaveras (counties), California (states), Mokelumne (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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-m13976

Identifier 20357 (accession number), CHS-20357 (call number), CHS-20357 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13445 (legacy record id), chs-m13976 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14133 (legacy record id), 1-112-156 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13445

Unique identifier UC137492

Legacy Identifier CHS-20357.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 40.4 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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