California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Newspaper clipping in which the first notice of James Marshall's gold find, Coloma, ca.1930

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Newspaper clipping in which the first notice of James Marshall's gold find, Coloma, ca.1930

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Photograph of a newspaper clipping in which the first notice of James Marshall's gold find, Coloma, ca.1930. The clipping is from the San Francisco Californian's March 15th edition for 1848. An brief article on a horse race is mentioned along with the information on the gold find. Document begins "A horse race came of at the Dolorea Mission Course".

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Title Newspaper clipping in which the first notice of James Marshall's gold find, Coloma, ca.1930

Subject Marshall, James (subject), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek (file heading), Newspapers (lcsh), San Francisco Californian (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Coloma (city or populated place), El Dorado (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images, physical objects

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), manuscripts (aat), 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20078

Identifier 20312 (accession number), CHS-20312 (call number), CHS-20312 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19895 (legacy record id), chs-m20078 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14136 (legacy record id), 1-112-249 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19895

Unique identifier UC122349

Legacy Identifier CHS-20312.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.1 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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