Portrait of a prospector with his burros during the days of the gold rush, ca.1900

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Photographic portrait of a prospector with his burros during the days of the gold rush, ca.1900. The grisly old prospector stands to the left of center, dressed in worn clothes and a tattered hat, holding his donkey's lead. The donkey stands at center, wooden equipment and concentrate loaded in a huge pile on his back. A second donkey can be seen in the background along with the hillside and a tree pictured to the right.

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Title Portrait of a prospector with his burros during the days of the gold rush, ca.1900

Subject Donkeys (lcsh), mineral deposit areas (adlf), Miners (lcsh), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Miners (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1880/1910

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, 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 1880/1910

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-m2776

Identifier 7810 (accession number), CHS-7810 (call number), CHS-7810 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3675 (legacy record id), chs-m2776 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14113 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2845 (legacy record id), 1-112-16 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3675

Unique identifier UC121176

Legacy Identifier CHS-7810.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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