Old waterwheel at the Shelton Mine in Mammoth City, ca.1930

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Photograph of an old waterwheel at the Shelton Mine in Mammoth City, ca.1930. The wheel, built around 1878-1879 and used for crushing ore, is pictured at center, the wheel itself visible in profile at left, with a sluice and gears visible to the right. The wheel was constructed when mining activity was at its height in the Mammoth region.

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Title Old waterwheel at the Shelton Mine in Mammoth City, ca.1930

Subject hydrographic structures (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Mono County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Mammoth City (city or populated place), Mono (counties), 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-m20071

Identifier 20343 (accession number), CHS-20343 (call number), CHS-20343 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19888 (legacy record id), chs-m20071 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14166 (legacy record id), 1-112-150 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19888

Unique identifier UC122136

Legacy Identifier CHS-20343.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.3 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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