Panoramic view of the mining town of Randsburg, in the winter, ca.1900

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Photograph of a panoramic view of the mining town of Randsburg, in the winter, ca.1900. Many of the structures are tents. The town and hills behind it are covered with snow. Several people are standing near an unhitched wagon behind a small wooden building in the foreground (lower left). Legible signs include: "Jameson's feed stable", ..."k Cafe", "Randsburg Drugstore", "Granger[?] stage office", ..."& coal yard", "Shepard, Wheeler & Rhodes, U.S. Deputy mineral surveyors, Mining & civil engineers, Abstractors & mining claims", "Mines bought, sold & examined & reports furnished", "Randsburg assay office", "Hempstead's drug store", "New York Hotel", "Randsburg steam bakery", "Eureka chop house", "Harrington House", "Lodging", "Mining surveyor", "Elite Theatre", "St. Elmo cigar store", ..."aster".

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Title Panoramic view of the mining town of Randsburg, in the winter, ca.1900

Subject Kern County -- Randsburg (file heading), mine sites (adlf), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Kern (counties), Randsburg (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1900

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-m7375

Identifier 1795 (accession number), CHS-1795 (call number), CHS-1795 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7514 (legacy record id), chs-m7375 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7503 (legacy record id), 1-111-23 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7514

Unique identifier UC123078

Legacy Identifier CHS-1795.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.7 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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