View of Main Street in Placerville, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view of Main Street in Placerville, ca.1930. Many automobiles line the street while many buildings line the raised sidewalk. A line with several flags hanging down extends from the right where a tree stands and the left where a radio shop stands in the foreground. A store on the left has stacks of boxes outside the front entrance and a hotel can be seen further down. A brick building can be seen on the right as well as a truck with a fenced bed. More flags can be seen further down and a large building stands facing the end of the street. Light poles and electrical lines line the street and trees can be seen in the background.; Picture file card reads "Hangtown Creek -- in which most of the mining was done -- is in back of the buildings, on the right. The town started in 1848, then known as 'Dry Diggings'. Next year, the name was changed to 'Hangtown' and it took the present name in 1854".

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Title View of Main Street in Placerville, ca.1930

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), El Dorado (counties), Placerville (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)

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-m19089

Identifier 20429 (accession number), CHS-20429 (call number), CHS-20429 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19004 (legacy record id), chs-m19089 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14142 (legacy record id), 1-112-182 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19004

Unique identifier UC137106

Legacy Identifier CHS-20429.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.5 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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