California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Automobile below a trestle of the old Central Pacific Railway Crossing near Highway Forty, 1936

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Automobile below a trestle of the old Central Pacific Railway Crossing near Highway Forty, 1936

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Photograph of an automobile below a trestle of the old Central Pacific Railway Crossing near Highway Forty, 1936. The automobile is pictured just right of center, parked beside a narrow, unlined road. Slightly into the background, a railroad trestle runs above the road and perpendicular to it over a gentle slope through a wooded area at left. Tree foliage can be seen creeping in from the right edge of the image. The narrow road is identified as Highway Forty, between Emmigrant Gap and Spaulding Avenue. Highway Forty is one of the emigrant roads of the 1850's. Photoprint reads: "The rail roads built in the [?] 1860's".

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Title Automobile below a trestle of the old Central Pacific Railway Crossing near Highway Forty, 1936

Subject Donner Party (subject), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Placer County -- General (file heading), railroad features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Placer (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1936

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 1936

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-m19147

Identifier 20436 (accession number), CHS-20436 (call number), CHS-20436 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19059 (legacy record id), chs-m19147 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14173 (legacy record id), 1-112-223 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19059

Unique identifier UC137109

Legacy Identifier CHS-20436.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.4 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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