Exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935. A split-level two-story building is shown at center on a gentle slope. The building, constructed in what appears to be the Second Empire style of architecture, is primarily clapboard, with its colonnaded face surfaced in brick, while this face of the building also bears a decorative medallion. Each of the main doors and windows is framed by a decorative arch. The building is in a slight state of disrepair: the shingles of its roof are uneven and warped, a brick and stovepipe chimney on the lower roof is bent, some of the clapboard has come undone and several panes of glass appear to be missing from the leftmost window. A fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall are visible in the left foreground.; Pipers Opera House, the oldest theatre in Nevada, was built by John Piper in 1864. In its heyday, it played the best talent available. The front was a bar room, while another part of the building was once used as a city jail. At the time of the photograph, it was the oldest theater in Nevada.

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Title Exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935

Subject buildings (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 ; 10 x 13 cm., 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 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19095

Identifier 20419 (accession number), CHS-20419 (call number), CHS-20419 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19010 (legacy record id), chs-m19095 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113-35 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19010

Unique identifier UC137355

Legacy Identifier CHS-20419.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 10.6 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 26.9 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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