View of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935

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Photograph of a view of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935. The wooden frame of a mining apparatus stands at the right centerground of the picture. The foreground of the picture contains mining debris, including a large-diameter pipe, wood scraps, and scrap metal. More debris is visible on the ground in the centerground. A burst of smoke or steam hangs in the air in the left middle ground, apparently emitted from a low metal structure which bisects the left side of the image. Small houses are visible in the near background, while hills occupy the remainder.; The shaft of the Consolidated Virginia Mine was at one time considered the richest in the world. Its great strike was made in March 1873.

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Title View of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Virginia City (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Nevada (states), USA (countries), Virginia City (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1935

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 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 1935

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-m19099

Identifier 20423 (accession number), CHS-20423 (call number), CHS-20423 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18966 (legacy record id), chs-m19099 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113-31 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18966

Unique identifier UC137353

Legacy Identifier CHS-20423.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.9 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
27.7 cm × 34.8 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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