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Drawing showing gold digging and washing in Placer County, ca.1900
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Drawing showing gold digging and washing in Placer County, ca.1900
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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Description
Photograph of a drawing showing gold digging and washing in Placer County, ca.1900. Several different techniques are shown: in the background at left, a man is pushing a cart out of an underground mine; in the lower left corner a man is panning for gold; in the foreground at right, three prospectors shovel gold into a box full of running water; at center, three miners are pulling a bucket up from a well and in the background at right, a group of men is shoveling dirt into a long aqueduct. All of the men are wearing broad-brimmed hats, long pants and long-sleeved shirts.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drawing showing gold digging and washing in Placer County, ca.1900
Subject
Donner Party
(subject),
mine sites
(adlf),
Mines and mineral resources
(lcsh),
Mining -- Placer County -- General
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Placer
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
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)
Date Created
1900
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.
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14016
Identifier
10078 (
accession number
), CHS-10078 (
call number
), CHS-10078 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-m14016 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14173 (
legacy record id
), chs-c65-13580 (
legacy record id
), 1-112-45 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
13580
Unique identifier
UC137552
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10078.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860 to 1960