Exterior view of the Wells Fargo Express building, Columbia, ca.1894

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Wells Fargo Express building, Columbia, ca.1894. An exterior of a brick building with several iron doors is shown at center, the left portion of which has a second story with a wrought iron balcony. Ivy creeps from the ground at the left side of the image up to the left side of the balcony. The right hand section of the building, once a store, has dental molding detail near its roof line. The painted text on the building, midway down the center section, reads "[E]xpress". The left section also bears a sign reading "[...] Telegraph [?]" and another illegible sign. A billboard at the join between the left and right sections of the building holds a bill reading "P.T.A. Dance" and an illegible bill. Another illegible bill is tacked to the tree at left foreground. The Wells Fargo Express building was built in 1855. The store at its right was converted into a museum.

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Title Exterior view of the Wells Fargo Express building, Columbia, ca.1894

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1894

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Columbia (city or populated place), Tuolumne (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1894

Type images

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

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19063

Identifier 20449 (accession number), CHS-20449 (call number), CHS-20449 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18978 (legacy record id), chs-m19063 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14207 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18978

Unique identifier UC135992

Legacy Identifier CHS-20449.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 36.7 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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