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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, ca.1900
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View of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of a view of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, ca.1900. At center is an automobile driving along a dirt road on the side of a desert hill. A wooden structure which appears to be a power station is visible to the left of the automobile. Lines run alongside a portion of the road, while rolling hills are visible throughout and in the background. A white one-story structure is visible on top of a distant hill. Photoprint reads: "General view of property of Estelle Mines Corporation Cerro Gordo mining district. Showing portion of main tunnel camp, aerial tramway, Morning Star Gold Mine and outcrop of San Felipe vein on crest of mountain".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, ca.1900
Subject
Deserts
(adlf),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- General
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)
Date Created
1900
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-m20688
Identifier
46202 (
accession number
), CHS-46202 (
call number
), CHS-46202 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-24672 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20688 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14107 (
legacy record id
), 84-1-952 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
24672
Unique identifier
UC130397
Legacy Identifier
CHS-46202.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.1 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 41.1 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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