Exterior view of an old one-room cabin Mark Twain once resided in, Jackass Hill, ca.1930

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Photograph of an exterior view of an old one-room cabin Mark Twain once resided in, Jackass Hill, ca.1930. A cobblestone obelisk is pictured in the left foreground, just in from the wire fence that runs the width of the image in the foreground. In the background, a wooden longhouse is pictured with a sign to the right that reads "Mark Twain's Cabin". Twain lived in the cabin during part of 1864 and 1865. It was there that he met some of the characters in "Roughing It".

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Title Exterior view of an old one-room cabin Mark Twain once resided in, Jackass Hill, ca.1930

Subject buildings (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Mining -- Calaveras County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Calaveras (counties), California (states), Jackass Hill (city or populated place), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20057

Identifier 20331 (accession number), CHS-20331 (call number), CHS-20331 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19874 (legacy record id), chs-m20057 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14127 (legacy record id), 1-112-127 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19874

Unique identifier UC122186

Legacy Identifier CHS-20331.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 40.7 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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