California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

The grand opening of the Elks Montezuma Club, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900

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The grand opening of the Elks Montezuma Club, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900

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Photograph of the grand opening of the Elks Montezuma Club, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900. The two-story masonry building features arched windows and large arched doorways. The building is decorated with ornaments, flags (including the American flag), ribbons, and large bows. People are gathered around the front entrance (on the corner of the street) where a pianist is playing the piano. Nearby, several people are sitting on wooden chairs situated on a platform. Light bulbs and banners hang across the street to signify the grand opening of the club.; Legible signs include: "Montezuma Club, B.P.O.", "The Red Front, general dealers", "Nye and Ormsby County agency", "Price Slashers [...]", "bank", "this road to Crystal Baths swimming tanks", "Gol[...]ld Drug Co.", "real estate, Title Abstract Company", "National Ice Co.".; "Prominent among the factors which go to make life in the desert mining camp not only bearable but enjoyable, is the social club. Tonopah has it Mizpah Club; Goldfield its Montezuma Club, and Rhyolite now has its Shoshone Club. To the credit of Sam F. Lindsay, county commissioner, miner, businessman and all around substantial citizen, stands the last organization. As president of the organization, he piloted it through its early days, and with the help of the prominent citizens of the camp, planned the beautiful clubhouse as a center of social life. " -- unknown author.

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Title The grand opening of the Elks Montezuma Club, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Goldfield (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Esmeralda (counties), Goldfield (city or populated place), Nevada (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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-m17364

Identifier 5420 (accession number), CHS-5420 (call number), CHS-5420 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17361 (legacy record id), chs-m17364 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14218 (legacy record id), 1-111-71 (microfiche number), 1-113-2 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17361

Unique identifier UC142554

Legacy Identifier CHS-5420.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 cm at 300dpi

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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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