California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Four miners posing, surrounded by rock, [s.d.]

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Four miners posing, surrounded by rock, [s.d.]

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Photograph of four miners posing, surrounded by rock, [s.d.]. All four men stand at center, facing the viewer. The leftmost man wears a flashlight-cap, while the rightmost wears a rimmed hat. The lowness of the rock above them suggests that they may be inside a mine.

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Title Four miners posing, surrounded by rock, [s.d.]

Subject mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

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-m22566

Identifier 49145 (accession number), CHS-49145 (call number), CHS-49145 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21658 (legacy record id), chs-m22566 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21658

Unique identifier UC125394

Legacy Identifier CHS-49145.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 29.6 in × 22.4 in at 300dpi
75.2 cm × 56.9 cm at 300dpi

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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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