Exterior view of "The Bottle House" a house made of bottles in Rhyolite, Nevada, ca.1925

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Photograph of an exterior view of "The Bottle House" a house made of bottles in Rhyolite, Nevada, ca.1925. The house, built in 1905 and said to have nearly 25,000 bottles that comprise its side walls, stands at the center of the image. Its walls look as though they are made of thousands of tiny circles, showing the bottoms of the bottles. The house also sports a small porch, shingled roof, and brick chimney. A sign posted in the dusty, barren ground out front reads "The Bottle House / Preserved as a Historical Relic by the Beatty Improvement Association / Restored January 1925 by the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. / Paramount Pictures. / Do Not Molest.". Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Exterior view of "The Bottle House" a house made of bottles in Rhyolite, Nevada, ca.1925

Subject buildings (adlf), Folk art (lcsh), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Rhyolite (file heading), Nevada -- Rhyolite (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Nevada (states), Rhyolite (city or populated place), The Bottle House (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, 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 1925

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-m11697

Identifier 6854 (accession number), CHS-6854 (call number), CHS-6854 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11110 (legacy record id), chs-m11697 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14048 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14221 (legacy record id), 1-111-86 (microfiche number), 1-113-15 (microfiche number), 1-81-81 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11110

Unique identifier UC128409

Legacy Identifier CHS-6854.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.2 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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