View of "C" Street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view of "C" Street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930. People dressed in nice clothing and hats crowd the center while others congregate in small groups throughout the length of the street. Columns support porches that shade the sidewalk and fences guard the second stories of several buildings on the left. Many of these buildings are made of brick and colored flags hang from their rafters to the opposite side of the street. One of these lines displays several miniature American flags while electrical lines extend from poles along the edge of the street. A horse and several automobiles can be seen further down where the people do not crowd the street.; Picture file card reads "This city started in 1859 and became one of the wealthiest mining cities of the world. The tallest building opposite the telephone pole is the 'International Hotel' which for 25 years had the only passenger elevator in Nevada".

Asset Metadata

Title View of "C" Street in Virginia City, Nevada, 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 -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Virginia City (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place C Street (roadway), Nevada (states), USA (countries), Virginia City (city or populated place)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19098

Identifier 20422 (accession number), CHS-20422 (call number), CHS-20422 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19012 (legacy record id), chs-m19098 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113-32 (microfiche number), USC (project), 56899-C (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19012

Unique identifier UC137091

Legacy Identifier CHS-20422.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
52.8 cm × 42.4 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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