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Title
Burned remains of the El Dorado mining camp in Calaveras County, 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 the El Dorado mining camp in Calaveras County, ca.1930. Sun shines on the weeds at center through the openings of incomplete brick buildings on the left. The remnants of a poster hangs on a wall while several poles protrude from the same wall's upper stories. An automobile is parked next to a large tree that covers a second, more complete building in the background on the right. Trees cover the road in the distance.
Picture file card reads "El Dorado, Calaveras County. One of the famous mining camps of the 1850's is almost gone. The burned out buildings stand like ghosts of the past. Grass grows on the sidewalks once trod by thousands. Down the empty street there still stands the Hills Hotel, built in 1856-57. [s.d.]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19075
USC-1-1-1-14139 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20458
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19075
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20458.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--El Dorado County--El Dorado
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
El Dorado
USA
Source
1-112-83 [Microfiche number]
20458 [Accession number]
CHS-20458 [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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