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Title
Miners about to descend into the Empire Gold Mine, Grass Valley, California, ca.1900-1930
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900/1930
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 miners about to descend into the Empire Gold Mine, Grass Valley, California, ca.1900-1930. Four miners stand beside the two steeply inclining cars, each containing about fifteen tightly-packed miners, underground. All the men can be seen wearing dirty coats, rugged pants, and small hats. Electric wires run from the cross piece of a thick wood post near the rocky ceiling.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12609
USC-1-1-1-14167 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4985
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12609
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4985.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Nevada County--Grass Valley
Mine sites
Time Period
circa 1900/1930
Place
California
Grass Valley
Nevada
USA
Source
1-112-2 [Microfiche number]
4985 [Accession number]
CHS-4985 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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