View of a commercial street in Placerville, showing the Hotel Placerville, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view of a commercial street in Placerville, showing the Hotel Placerville, ca.1930. The paved street occupies the foreground and bisects the image as it recedes into the distance, with several automobiles parked along each side. Two- and three- story commercial buildings, both brick and clapboard, line each side of the street, fronted by concrete sidewalks. A few townspeople loiter on the sidewalks, both at the far left and the far right. Two copies of a sign bearing the text "Apr 6" hang on successive utility poles on the left side of the street. Signs on the right side of the street, from left to right, include: "Forum Grand Royal Ice Cream Gasolene [sic]", "Furniture Store" and "Hotel Placerville". Placerville was formerly known as Hangtown. The building bearing the sign "Hotel Placerville", in the right foreground of the image, is known as The Cary House ; it was built in 1861, and was once the oldest hotel in the town.

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Title View of a commercial street in Placerville, showing the Hotel Placerville, ca.1930

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- El Dorado County -- Placerville (file heading), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), El Dorado (counties), Placerville (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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-m19088

Identifier 20428 (accession number), CHS-20428 (call number), CHS-20428 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19003 (legacy record id), chs-m19088 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14142 (legacy record id), 1-112-181 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19003

Unique identifier UC137124

Legacy Identifier CHS-20428.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 40.3 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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