Birdseye view of Hang Town (Placerville), showing the famous hanging tree to the left of the Empire building, ca. early 1850's

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Hang Town (Placerville), showing the famous hanging tree to the left of the Empire building, ca. early 1850's. An entire town comprised of log cabins is pictured, the Empire building and the hanging tree pictured at the center background. Several traditional-style log cabins stand in the foreground where the word "Hangtown" has been written into the image, beyond which a two-story log building stands, one of many situated along the dirt streets of the town. Tree-dappled hills are visible in the background. Studebaker began as a blacksmith in the building at the extreme right. Gold was panned out of dirt in the streets here.

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Title Birdseye view of Hang Town (Placerville), showing the famous hanging tree to the left of the Empire building, ca. early 1850's

Subject cities (adlf), Criminals (lcsh), El Dorado County -- Placerville -- Hangtown (file heading), Hanging (lcsh), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1845/1855

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1845/1855

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-m6948

Identifier 7813 (accession number), CHS-7813 (call number), CHS-7813 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7003 (legacy record id), chs-m6948 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7063 (legacy record id), 1-112-18 (microfiche number), 1-156- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7003

Unique identifier UC122633

Legacy Identifier CHS-7813.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.0 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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