Nevada-California boundary marker, Truckee, ca.1930

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Photograph of the Nevada-California boundary marker, Truckee, ca.1930. An automobile faces the foreground at center with the stone marker on the left. The marker has a small circle on top and a rectangular plaque at the center. The road on the right rides along the mountain side with the rocky hill above on the left and many trees sloping down on the right. An automobile can be seen driving away further down the road. "A few miles east of Truckee, Highway 40 passes into Nevada. The monument marks the boundary. California is in the foreground".

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Title Nevada-California boundary marker, Truckee, ca.1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Nevada (counties), Truckee (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1930

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-m14014

Identifier 20410 (accession number), CHS-20410 (call number), CHS-20410 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13578 (legacy record id), chs-m14014 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14171 (legacy record id), 1-112-232 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13578

Unique identifier UC137436

Legacy Identifier CHS-20410.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 42.6 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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