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Title
Three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
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 three men working at Placer mining operation near Lake Alamur, Deer Creek River, 1906. The men can be seen on the right sitting along a bridge-like feature that rides on a bank of rocks and dry brush at the Placer mining operation on Deer Creek River. The bank of the river is the foot of a dusty hill that supports a structure with a large sloping roof. A second bridge-like feature can be seen in the top left-hand corner while the river runs below. Picture file card reads "Near Lake Alamur, part of San Francisco water supply".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19145
USC-1-1-1-14173 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11740
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19145
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11740.jpg
Subject
Donner Party
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Placer County--General
Mine sites
Time Period
1906
Place
California
Placer
USA
Source
1-112-53 [Microfiche number]
11740 [Accession number]
CHS-11740 [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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