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Title
Workers drilling inside the Santa Ana Tin Mine in Orange County, March 20, 1903
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1903-03-20
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 workers drilling inside the Santa Ana Tin Mine in Orange County, March 20, 1903. Three men operate a drill working on the face of a tunnel. Thick timbers shore up the tunnel. A piece of corrugated metal forms part of the roof shoring. The owner of the mine was Gail Borden, III, Trabuco Canyon, south of Mojeska reservoir.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15348
USC-1-1-1-14172 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2224
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15348
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2224.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Orange County
Mine sites
Time Period
1903-03-20
Place
California
Orange
Santa Ana
USA
Source
1-111-47 [Microfiche number]
2224 [Accession number]
CHS-2224 [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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