Water flume in the mountains between Camino and Placerville, ca.1930

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Photograph of a water flume in the mountains between Camino and Placerville, ca.1930. The wide canal is pictured at center, zig-zagging to the right distance where a sluice or funnel can be seen affixed above the flume's wooden siderails. Treetops from the mountain area below are visible to the right, while mountain face is at left. According to the picture file card "The South Fork of the American River flows one thousand feet below".

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Title Water flume in the mountains between Camino and Placerville, ca.1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Camino (city or populated place), 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), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19086

Identifier 20284 (accession number), CHS-20284 (call number), CHS-20284 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19001 (legacy record id), chs-m19086 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14142 (legacy record id), 1-112-239 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19001

Unique identifier UC136583

Legacy Identifier CHS-20284.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
51.0 cm × 40.5 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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