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Title
Sacks of magnesium ready for shipment at Magnesium Station near Death Valley, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 sacks of magnesium ready for shipment at Magnesium Station near Death Valley, ca.1900. From bottom to center are cloth sacks stacked five-sacks high. At the bottom right is what appears to be a dolley, while a pole and what appear to be railroad tracks are visible beyond the stacks. Desert shrubs and mountains are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20692
USC-1-1-1-14107 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46203
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20692
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46203.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--General
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
46203 [Accession number]
84-1-951 [Microfiche number]
CHS-46203 [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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