California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915

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View of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915

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Photograph of a view of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915. Trees and bushes cover the hilly land in the foreground. Sutter's Creek runs through the lowland ahead. Trees cover the mountains in the distance. Picture file card reads: "James Marshall discovered gold here, Jan. 19, 1848".; "On an icy cold morning early in 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, picked up a few nuggets of gold from the American River at the site of a sawmill he was building for John Sutter near Coloma. By August, the hills above the river were strewn with wood huts and tents as the first of 4,000 miners lured by the gold discovery scrambled to strike it rich. Prospectors, from the East sailed around Cape Horn. Some hiked across the Isthmus of Panama, and by 1849, about 40,000 came to San Francisco by sea alone. Nearly $2,000,000,000 in gold was taken from the earth before mining became dormant." -- unknown author.

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Title View of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915

Subject Marshall, James (subject), mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1915

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 1915

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-m17437

Identifier 5665 (accession number), CHS-5665 (call number), CHS-5665 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17432 (legacy record id), chs-m17437 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14136 (legacy record id), 1-112- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17432

Unique identifier UC142362

Legacy Identifier CHS-5665.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 15.1 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 38.4 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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