Long strip of smoothed rock left over from hydraulic mining in the American River, ca.1930

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Photograph of a long strip of smoothed rock left over from hydraulic mining in the American River, ca.1930. A long bar of fist-sized stones is pictured extending towards the horizon. The top edge of this pile just barely obscures a view of the treetops below, and is heaped into two interlacing mounds, a slight depression down the center. The mining was done by dredgers.; Photoprint reads: "Miles of rock between Sacramento and Folsom -- the result of hydraulic mining by dredgers in the American River. Folsom can be seen many miles of rocks refuse from hydraulic mines".

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Title Long strip of smoothed rock left over from hydraulic mining in the American River, ca.1930

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Sacramento County (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Folsom (city or populated place), Sacramento (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 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-m18923

Identifier 20314 (accession number), CHS-20314 (call number), CHS-20314 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18756 (legacy record id), chs-m18923 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14191 (legacy record id), 1-112-88 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18756

Unique identifier UC136176

Legacy Identifier CHS-20314.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.8 in × 10.2 in at 300dpi
35.1 cm × 25.9 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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