View of a road in Placerville city, El Dorado, California, ca.1912

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Photograph of a view of a road in Placerville city, El Dorado, California, ca.1912. Horse-drawn carriages are parked along either side of the unpaved street. In the foreground, a man is walking across from right to left, near a sign that reads "Gasolene". Further back, a second man sits on a bench which appears to be situated more or less in the center of the road. Saloon-style buildings with wooden canopies line the street to either side along with utility poles. A house is visible on the hill in the distance, along with trees. Legible signs include: "Clothing Sale", "Roundtent", and "[...] Lager [...]". Picture file card reads: "'Where gold is panned out of the streets.'"

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Title View of a road in Placerville city, El Dorado, California, ca.1912

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- El Dorado County -- Placerville (file heading), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), El Dorado (counties), Placerville (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1912

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1912

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-m17861

Identifier 6816 (accession number), CHS-6816 (call number), CHS-6816 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17844 (legacy record id), chs-m17861 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14142 (legacy record id), 1-112-10 (microfiche number), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17844

Unique identifier UC113342

Legacy Identifier CHS-6816.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.8 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

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