View of the tomb of James Graham Fair, San Francisco, ca.1930

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Photograph of the Tomb of James Graham Fair, San Francisco, ca.1930. The tomb, which appears to be stone, displays the name "Fair" above a wooden door that stands between two dark columns above a small, narrow stairway. The stairway leads to a raised platform of white tile on which the tomb stands at center. Behind the cemetery in which the tomb sits, a faint cityscape can be seen in the distance.; Picture file card reads "Tomb of James Graham Fair -- one of the great developers of the mines at Virginia City, Nevada. Died Dec.1984 at age 63. Buried in Laural Hill Cemetery, S.F.".

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Title View of the tomb of James Graham Fair, San Francisco, ca.1930

Subject Cemeteries (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- San Francisco County -- San Francisco (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint,s 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14035

Identifier 20381 (accession number), CHS-20381 (call number), CHS-20381 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13599 (legacy record id), chs-m14035 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14194 (legacy record id), 1-112-215 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13599

Unique identifier UC137471

Legacy Identifier CHS-20381.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 41.4 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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