Locomotive train billowing steam, showing Mount Shasta in the background, Siskiyou County, ca.1900

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Photograph of a locomotive train billowing steam, showing Mount Shasta in the background, Siskiyou County, ca.1900. The train can be seen across center, with the front of the train visible at left. Six men can be seen standing in the doorways of one of the two cars, while tall pine trees are visible behind the train. A snow-covered mountain can be seen in the background, while dirt and weeds are visible on the flat land in the foreground. The sides of the train read, "M.C.R.R.R", "United States Mail Railway Post Office 01", "McCloud River R.R.", "Baggage", "US Mail 02" and "Wells Fargo & Co. Express". A boxcar at right reads, "R&M 60091". Photoprint reads: "Passenger train on McCloud River Rail Road".

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Title Locomotive train billowing steam, showing Mount Shasta in the background, Siskiyou County, ca.1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Natural features -- Mountains -- Mount Shasta (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Siskiyou (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 16 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m20865

Identifier 46350 (accession number), CHS-46350 (call number), CHS-46350 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24932 (legacy record id), chs-m20865 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14242 (legacy record id), 1-84- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24932

Unique identifier UC130810

Legacy Identifier CHS-46350.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
42.0 cm × 33.0 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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