View of four miners working in an unidentified location in California, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of four miners working in an unidentified location in California, ca.1900. The four miners are at center and are looking at the viewer. They are standing in a large hole that has been dug out of a rocky hill. A small cart can be seen on a set of metal rails at right. Two large wooden frames with wire mesh inside are standing up between the miners, and a large pile of gravel can be seen. Tall mountains are visible in the background at left.

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Title View of four miners working in an unidentified location in California, ca.1900

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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 1900

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-m13956

Identifier 33146 (accession number), CHS-33146 (call number), CHS-33146 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13425 (legacy record id), chs-m13956 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14113 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13425

Unique identifier UC137488

Legacy Identifier CHS-33146.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.0 cm × 40.7 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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