Exterior view of the mansion of Sandy Bowers, Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935

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Photograph of an exterior view of the mansion of Sandy Bowers, Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935. A dusty walkway leads from the foreground through the grass yard, around what appears to be a stone fountain to the double doors of the large, brick mansion. Above the doors two arched windows can be seen while eight rectangular windows can be seen in the rest of the front wall which is shaded by the trees on either side and lined with two benches as well as many small bushes. Above, four arched windows protrude from the shingled roof and a hillside can be seen in the background.; Picture file card reads "The home of Sandy Bowers, multimillionaire of the early Nevada mining days. Built in 1861 -- the costliest mansion the state of Nevada ever had -- $400,000 -- 14 rooms. Gold door knobs imported from France. Mr. Bowers died in 1868 and lies buried on the hillside behind the house".

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Title Exterior view of the mansion of Sandy Bowers, Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Carson City (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Virginia and Truckee Railway (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Carson City (city or populated place), Nevada (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1935

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 1935

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-m19158

Identifier 20279 (accession number), CHS-20279 (call number), CHS-20279 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19070 (legacy record id), chs-m19158 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14216 (legacy record id), 1-113-45 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19070

Unique identifier UC136533

Legacy Identifier CHS-20279.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
52.6 cm × 42.5 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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