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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906
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Three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906
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Description
Photograph of three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906. The men can be seen on the right sitting along a bridge-like feature that rides on a bank of rocks and dry brush at the Placer mining operation on Deer Creek River. The bank of the river is the foot of a dusty hill that supports a structure with a large sloping roof. A second bridge-like feature can be seen in the top left-hand corner while the river runs below. Picture file card reads "Near Lake Alamur, part of San Francisco water supply".
Asset Metadata
Title
Three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906
Subject
Donner Party
(subject),
mine sites
(adlf),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- Placer County -- General
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Placer
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1906
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
1906
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19145
Identifier
11740 (
accession number
), CHS-11740 (
call number
), CHS-11740 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19057 (
legacy record id
), chs-m19145 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14173 (
legacy record id
), 1-112-53 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19057
Unique identifier
UC136568
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11740.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.5 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 41.1 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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