California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Great cave-in at the mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges, 1905

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Great cave-in at the mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges, 1905

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Photograph of a great cave-in at the mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges (later Tumco), Imperial County, (at the Colorado River), 1905. Viewed from above ground, a large sinkhole over the collapsed mine dominates the image. Several wooden timbers lay on the opening to a shaft in the foreground. The buildings of the mining operation with smokestack are visible in the background. The surrounding terrain is hilly, rocky and barren.

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Title Great cave-in at the mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges, 1905

Subject Industry -- Mining -- Imperial County (file heading), mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Imperial (counties), Tumco (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 16 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 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 1905

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15153

Identifier 1551 (accession number), CHS-1551 (call number), CHS-1551 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14056 (legacy record id), chs-m15153 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14144 (legacy record id), 1-111-9 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14056

Unique identifier UC143786

Legacy Identifier CHS-1551.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 32.2 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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