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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Interior of a stamp mill, Los Angeles(?), ca.1900
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Interior of a stamp mill, Los Angeles(?), ca.1900
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Photograph of the interior of a stamp mill, Los Angeles(?), ca.1900. The mill is about three-stories tall, constructed mainly of wood, and has a sloping roof. Eight coffin-shaped boxes used to hold conveyor belts allow the two workers to sift through the crushed rocks or ores. Eventually, the crushed materials fall into a container at the end of the conveyor belt. At the start of each conveyor belts are cylindrical heads made of metal. They are attached to pistons and in turn are attached to some kind of mechanical device on the second floor. Two men sit on the ledge and appear to be overseeing the process on the second floor. Two men on the first floor are looking through the crushed materials that roll down the conveyor belts. Light bulbs hung from electrical cords attached to the building's structural beams dangle freely just above the conveyor belts.; "Stamp mills are used to pulverize ore, salt, rocks, etc., into powder form or until they could pass through a 30-mesh screen. Miners would bring their gold bearing rocks to get the gold ore out. If they did not own a stamp mill, typically, they had to pay the owner of the mill a certain amount of gold to use the stamp mill. Stamp mills consists of heavy iron heads on vertical shafts. Horizontal shafts are turned by some mechanical means to move the vertical stem up and down (similar to piston heads on cam shafts)." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Interior of a stamp mill, Los Angeles(?), ca.1900
Subject
mine sites
(adlf),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- General
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1900
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-m17303
Identifier
5155 (
accession number
), CHS-5155 (
call number
), CHS-5155 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17305 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17303 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14107 (
legacy record id
), 1-111-56 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17305
Unique identifier
UC142580
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5155.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.9 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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