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Title
Site in Placerita Canyon where gold was discovered in 1842, San Fernando Valley, California, 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 site in Placerita Canyon where gold was discovered in 1842, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1930. Piles of rocks marble the hillside at right in-between patches of shrubs and tall grass. The hills continue into the background at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13955
USC-1-1-1-14112 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6623
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13955
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6623.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--First discovery of gold in California--Placerita Canyon
Canyons
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-111- [Microfiche number]
6623 [Accession number]
CHS-6623 [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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