View of the "Yellowjacket Mine" in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view of the "Yellowjacket Mine" in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930. In the foreground on the left a hillside spotted with weeds leads to a small dirt trail and a thin mining track can be seen below. The track rides along the foot of a dirt hill in the center where a second track rides on a skeletal wooden structure. The tracks lead into the earth as well as to the factories and buildings that make up the mining site in the background. Amongst the buildings on the right piles of supplies can be seen on the foot of the hillside above.; Picture file card reads "The 'Yellowjacket Mine' -- rated as one of the world's best producers. On April 7, 1869 this mine caught on fire with a loss of 45 lives. Parts of it were sealed up for three years before the fire was out".

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Title View of the "Yellowjacket Mine" in Virginia City, Nevada, ca.1930

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

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19102

Identifier 20426 (accession number), CHS-20426 (call number), CHS-20426 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19016 (legacy record id), chs-m19102 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14223 (legacy record id), 1-113-28 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19016

Unique identifier UC137092

Legacy Identifier CHS-20426.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
52.5 cm × 42.1 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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