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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Miners working in a mine shaft, [s.d.]
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Miners working in a mine shaft, [s.d.]
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Description
Photograph of miners working in a mine shaft, [s.d.]. At center, a man with a shovel and a man with a whellbarrow pose, while to the right, a bag hangs from the roof of the tunnel. More men can be seen faintly in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Miners working in a mine shaft, [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.
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22569
Identifier
49147 (
accession number
), CHS-49147 (
call number
), CHS-49147 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-21661 (
legacy record id
), chs-m22569 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
21661
Unique identifier
UC125422
Legacy Identifier
CHS-49147.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
29.5 in × 21.8 in at 300dpi
74.9 cm × 55.5 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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