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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930
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View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930
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Description
Photograph of a view down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930. A wide dirt road is shown at center, dipping down a gentle incline into the distance. One- to two-story commercial shops line the street to either side, with parked automobiles standing in front of them. Occasional trees appear intermittantly along the roadside. The adobe to the left if the old court of the camp. The El Dorado Hotel is the second building on the right.; Legible signs from left to right include: "[...] Place", "New [...]", "Calaveras Meat Market", "Electric [...] Repair Shop. Auto Curtains Repaired" and "Vulcanizing".
Asset Metadata
Title
View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930
Subject
El Dorado Hotel
(subject),
Mining -- Calaveras County -- Angel's Camp
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Angel's Camp
(city or populated place),
Calaveras
(counties),
California
(states),
Motherlode Highway
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
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
1930
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20059
Identifier
20270 (
accession number
), CHS-20270 (
call number
), CHS-20270 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19876 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20059 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14128 (
legacy record id
), 1-112-62 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19876
Unique identifier
UC122167
Legacy Identifier
CHS-20270.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
50.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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