Commercial Street, looking toward North Pine Street intersection, Nevada City, California, ca.1927

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Photograph of Commercial Street, looking toward North Pine Street intersection, Nevada City, California, ca.1927. A tight view on a narrow dirt street is shown, a parked car partially visible to the left. To the right, a length of sidewalk is shaded by the awnings extending from the commercial buildings just inside of its edge. Several industrial or warehouse buildings can be seen in the left distance. Legible signs from left to right include: "Uph[...]ste[...]", "[...]N. W. Dark[...]", "No Parking [...] Day or Night", "New Cabi[...]", and "Shop". Photoprint: "Old wooden buildings -- some over seventy years -- line the crooked streets".

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Title Commercial Street, looking toward North Pine Street intersection, Nevada City, California, ca.1927

Subject Industry -- Mining -- Nevada County -- Nevada City (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Commercial Street (roadway), Nevada (counties), Nevada City (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1927

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-m20107

Identifier 20365 (accession number), CHS-20365 (call number), CHS-20365 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19924 (legacy record id), chs-m20107 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14169 (legacy record id), 1-112-171 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19924

Unique identifier UC122158

Legacy Identifier CHS-20365.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 41.1 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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