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Title
Exterior view of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railway Depot, Nevada City, 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 an exterior view of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railway Depot, Nevada City, ca.1900. Railway tracks extend from the center in the foreground to the distant left. An automobile is parked to the left of the wooden depot at center. Two small, rectangular windows can be seen in the front wall of the structure which as an unusually wide shingled roof. A shed sits on the far right while a second, darker structure stands behind the first on the right. A porch supporting a large cylinder is attached to the second structure and a freight car labeled number sixty sits on tracks just to the left. Faint trees sit in the background.
Picture file card reads "Depot of the Nevada Co. Narrow Gauge Railway, built in 1877. It is still operating with its freight cars in the northern mining camps".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20110
USC-1-1-1-14169 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20368
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20110
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20368.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Nevada County--Nevada City
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Nevada City
Nevada
USA
Source
1-112-174 [Microfiche number]
20368 [Accession number]
CHS-20368 [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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