California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Deserted street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

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Deserted street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

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Photograph of a deserted street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930. Stores and electrical poles line the street while several lines run from one side of the street to the other. The post office, which is the first building on the left, has a glass doorway that is surrounded by windows. The second story shades the sidewalk and is supported by thin poles extending down to the street. Several signs stand between the post office and the other buildings that extend into the distance. "Deserted street of a once great mining town. A fire destroyed two thousand of its three thousand buildings in 1875".

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Title Deserted street in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Virginia City (file heading), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 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)

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-m19101

Identifier 20425 (accession number), CHS-20425 (call number), CHS-20425 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19015 (legacy record id), chs-m19101 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113-29 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19015

Unique identifier UC137093

Legacy Identifier CHS-20425.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
52.5 cm × 41.9 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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