California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Placer mine at Big Bar, Trinity County, showing a man with mining apparatus, 1900-1910

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View of the Placer mine at Big Bar, Trinity County, showing a man with mining apparatus, 1900-1910

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Photograph of a view of the Placer mine at Big Bar, Trinity County, showing a man with mining apparatus, 1900-1910. A man stands at center, surrounded by rock debris and bounded on either side by large-diameter metal pipes which run from the lower left and right corners, respectively, diagonally toward the center. The pipe on the right has a joint from which another metal pipe protrudes, perpendicular to the first. This pipe is slightly smaller, and extends upward and to the left at an angle; its sides are riveted, and it is braced by a wooden structure consisting of an arm with a box at the end that contains rocks. The man's hand holds a lever which is attached to a nozzle-like feature at the left end of this smaller pipe. Trees are visible in the background.

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Title View of the Placer mine at Big Bar, Trinity County, showing a man with mining apparatus, 1900-1910

Subject Big Bar Placer Mine (subject), mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Trinity County -- Big Bar (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Big Bar (city or populated place), California (states), Trinity (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

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 1900/1910

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-m20196

Identifier 20454 (accession number), CHS-20454 (call number), CHS-20454 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20013 (legacy record id), chs-m20196 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14202 (legacy record id), 1-112-73 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20013

Unique identifier UC122194

Legacy Identifier CHS-20454.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
49.7 cm × 40.0 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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