Rail car at top of the ore dump at mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges, California, ca.1905

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Photograph of an rail car at top of the ore dump at mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges (later Tumco), Imperial County, California, ca.1905. A wooden frame supports the rails on the steeply sloped structure. Below are a small wood building and wooden bins for temporary ore storage. A man sits on the ground next to the railroad tracks which run next to the mechanical workings beneath the bins. Further back and to the right is another building with a covered porch. The mountain slopes up to the right.

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Title Rail car at top of the ore dump at mine run by Free Gold Mining Company, Hedges, California, ca.1905

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 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 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-m15087

Identifier 1544 (accession number), CHS-1544 (call number), CHS-1544 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13849 (legacy record id), chs-m15087 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14144 (legacy record id), 1-111-4 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13849

Unique identifier UC143839

Legacy Identifier CHS-1544.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.4 in × 9.9 in at 300dpi
34.1 cm × 25.2 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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