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Title
Man attending to Coulterville's fire alarm, a bell on a pole, ca.1930
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a man attending Coulterville's fire alarm, a bell on a pole, ca.1930. The pole is at center and the large bell is mounted at the very top. There is a man to the right of the base, gesturing towards the bell. The pole stands on a mound in the middle of a dirt road that occupies the foreground. On the far side of the road is a row of buildings and trees. There are two cars at left and a utility pole at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13999
USC-1-1-1-14156 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9817
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13999
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9817.jpg
Subject
Fire-departments
Mining--Mariposa County--Coulterville
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Coulterville
Mariposa
USA
Source
1-112-35 [Microfiche number]
9817 [Accession number]
CHS-9817 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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