Unpaved business street in Coloma, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an unpaved business street in Coloma, [s.d.]. The broad dirt road is lined with trees on both sides. There are two small buildings at left. Both are wooden and have covered porches. A sign on the second one reads "Cold Drinks". There are more buildings on the right, further in the background. Behind the buildings and out of view on the left is the American River, where James Marshall discovered gold in 1848.; At one time the population of Coloma was 5000; in 1935, it was only 85.

Asset Metadata

Title Unpaved business street in Coloma, [s.d.]

Subject Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Coloma (city or populated place), El Dorado (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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)

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-m19043

Identifier 9813 (accession number), CHS-9813 (call number), CHS-9813 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18958 (legacy record id), chs-m19043 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14136 (legacy record id), 1-112-31 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18958

Unique identifier UC136773

Legacy Identifier CHS-9813.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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