Merced River gold dredger in Merced Falls, ca.1930

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Photograph of a Merced River gold dredger in Merced Falls, ca.1930. The dredger stands in the water at center, shooting water out of the left side. The mechanism appears to be several incorporated buildings with large appendages reaching out from each side and on top. Rocky banks with a background of trees can be seen on the right while what appears to be grassy swamp land sits on the left. A bank, seen in front, separates the swamp from the calm water in the foreground.; Picture file card reads "Great gold dredger on Upper Merced River working gold bearing gravel. These boats worked twenty-four hours non-stop and employed as many as thirty-three men. Some of these dredgers cost as much as four thousand dollars -- using a six hundred horsepower motor. This dredge is forty feet by fifty feet in size".

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Title Merced River gold dredger in Merced Falls, ca.1930

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Merced County (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Merced (counties), 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-m14008

Identifier 20239 (accession number), CHS-20239 (call number), CHS-20239 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13573 (legacy record id), chs-m14008 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14165 (legacy record id), 1-112-163 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13573

Unique identifier UC137468

Legacy Identifier CHS-20239.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.2 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

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