Exterior view of the Liberty Fire Engine House (?) in Gold Hill, Nevada, 1868

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Photograph of the exterior of a wooden building in Gold Hill, Nevada, 1868. The building has two stories and a set of double doors at right. On the roof above the double doors is a bell tower. There is a pole to the left of the building and a dirt road runs in front of it. There are hills in the background. This is the Liberty Fire Engine House (?) and was built in 1868. Picture file card says that the image shows "the engines 'Faithful' and 'Fearless'", components of Liberty Engine Co. No. 1

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Title Exterior view of the Liberty Fire Engine House (?) in Gold Hill, Nevada, 1868

Subject buildings (adlf), Fire-departments (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Gold Hill (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Gold Hill (city or populated place), Nevada (states), Storey (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1868

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 1868

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-m19076

Identifier 9830 (accession number), CHS-9830 (call number), CHS-9830 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18991 (legacy record id), chs-m19076 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14220 (legacy record id), 1-112-95 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18991

Unique identifier UC137333

Legacy Identifier CHS-9830.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
41.8 cm × 33.8 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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