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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Amalgamator at a mine on the Colorado River, California, ca.1900
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Amalgamator at a mine on the Colorado River, California, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of an amalgamator at a mine (Dennings?) on the Colorado River, California, ca.1900. The machine operates outside. A wooden ladder leads to the upper part of the wooden frame structure into which the amalgamator is built. A rocky embankment is visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Amalgamator at a mine on the Colorado River, California, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1900
Subject
Amalgams
(lcsh),
mine sites
(adlf),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- Colorado River mines -- Southern California
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
rivers: Colorado River
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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-m15253
Identifier
1907 (
accession number
), CHS-1907 (
call number
), CHS-1907 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-14098 (
legacy record id
), chs-m15253 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14110 (
legacy record id
), 1-111-29 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
14098
Unique identifier
UC143628
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1907.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.3 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
36.5 cm × 47.8 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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