A miner's cabin built from bottles, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900-1930

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Title A miner's cabin built from bottles, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900-1930

Description Photograph of a miner's cabin built from bottles, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900-1930. The flat single story cabin has walls made up of glass bottles plastered together with cement or some type of bonding substance. A wooden door, at the center of the house, allows entry into the house. A small pipe (probably the exhaust for the stove) extends above the roof. The cabin is surround by snow and its roof has a thin layer of snow.; "In 1902 gold was discovered in the hills near Tonopah, Nevada. Soon a few tents dotted the barren hills among the Joshua trees, and the boomtown of Goldfield was born. In 1903 only 36 people lived in the new town. By 1908 Goldfield was Nevada's largest city, with over 25,000 inhabitants. Along with the influx of miners and businessmen, came the labor unions. The Western Federation of Miners, the Industrial Workers of the World and the American Federation of Labor all vied for power in the region. During the early years, the unions were able to control wages and working hours. But in November, 1906, the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company was incorporated by owners George Wingfield and United States Senator George Nixon, signaling the beginning of monopoly control in Goldfield, and the start of an adversarial relationship between mine owners and the unions." -- unknown author.

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900/1930

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

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

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)

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-m17365

Identifier 5421 (accession number), CHS-5421 (call number), CHS-5421 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17362 (legacy record id), chs-m17365 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14215 (legacy record id), 1-111-72 (microfiche number), 1-113-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17362

Unique identifier UC142513

Legacy Identifier CHS-5421.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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