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Title
View down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, 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 view down the Motherlode Highway in Angel's Camp, ca.1930. A wide dirt road is shown at center, dipping down a gentle incline into the distance. One- to two-story commercial shops line the street to either side, with parked automobiles standing in front of them. Occasional trees appear intermittantly along the roadside. The adobe to the left if the old court of the camp. The El Dorado Hotel is the second building on the right.
Legible signs from left to right include: "[...] Place", "New [...]", "Calaveras Meat Market", "Electric [...] Repair Shop. Auto Curtains Repaired" and "Vulcanizing".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20059
USC-1-1-1-14128 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20270
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20059
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20270.jpg
Subject
El Dorado Hotel
Mining--Calaveras County--Angel's Camp
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
Angel's Camp
Calaveras
California
Motherlode Highway
USA
Source
1-112-62 [Microfiche number]
20270 [Accession number]
CHS-20270 [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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