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View of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930
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View of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930
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Description
Photograph of a view of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930. A man stands on the ground with his hands on his hips beneath the dilapidated ruins of an elevated cabin behind him wearing a long, light-colored coat and a bowler hat. The boards of the cabin's walls are partially gone and slant both inward and to the side. A surrounding ridge of hills is visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930
Subject
industrial sites
(adlf),
Marshall, John
(subject),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Coloma
(city or populated place),
El Dorado
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.
(aacr2),
microfilms
(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
1930
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17900
Identifier
6949 (
accession number
), CHS-6949 (
call number
), CHS-6949 (
filename
), J (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17882 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17900 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14136 (
legacy record id
), 1-112-12 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17882
Unique identifier
UC113408
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6949.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.4 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 34.2 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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