Burned remains of the El Dorado mining camp in Calaveras County, ca.1930

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Photograph of the El Dorado mining camp in Calaveras County, ca.1930. Sun shines on the weeds at center through the openings of incomplete brick buildings on the left. The remnants of a poster hangs on a wall while several poles protrude from the same wall's upper stories. An automobile is parked next to a large tree that covers a second, more complete building in the background on the right. Trees cover the road in the distance.; Picture file card reads "El Dorado, Calaveras County. One of the famous mining camps of the 1850's is almost gone. The burned out buildings stand like ghosts of the past. Grass grows on the sidewalks once trod by thousands. Down the empty street there still stands the Hills Hotel, built in 1856-57. [s.d.]".

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Title Burned remains of the El Dorado mining camp in Calaveras County, ca.1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), El Dorado (city or populated place), El Dorado (counties), 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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19075

Identifier 20458 (accession number), CHS-20458 (call number), CHS-20458 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18990 (legacy record id), chs-m19075 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14139 (legacy record id), 1-112-83 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18990

Unique identifier UC137101

Legacy Identifier CHS-20458.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.2 cm × 41.6 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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