View of Broad Street in Nevada City, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of Broad Street in Nevada City, California, [s.d.]. The narrow, unpaved street is at center. It is lined with an assortment of small wooden buildings and tall utility poles. A small carriage is being pulled by a mule at center. A streetcar can be seen in the middle of the street in the distance at center. Many paper signs are attached to the walls of a large brick building at right. A large tree is visible in the foreground at right, while in the background, several tree-lined ridges are visible.

Asset Metadata

Title View of Broad Street in Nevada City, California, [s.d.]

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Nevada County -- Nevada City (file heading), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broad Street (roadway), California (states), Nevada (counties), Nevada City (city or populated place), USA (countries)

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)

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-m14012

Identifier 14596 (accession number), CHS-14596 (call number), CHS-14596 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13577 (legacy record id), chs-m14012 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14169 (legacy record id), 1-112-272 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13577

Unique identifier UC137504

Legacy Identifier CHS-14596.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.8 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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