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Title
View of town buildings and a white oak tree in Volcano, as seen from the Plaza, 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 of town buildings and a white oak tree in Volcano, as seen from the Plaza, ca.1930. A simple wooden building with iron doors, formerly Wells Fargo Bank, sits at the left centerground of the image. Several boards are missing from its roofline, and its exterior finish is worn or dirty. To the right of this building sits a smaller building that bears a sign reading "Old Ab[e] Historic [?]. Civil [?]. Volcano [?]". A flagpole sits in front of these buildings, while behind them sits a two-story building which at one time was the Odd Fellows Hall. The two-story building's finish is damaged as well
bricks are visible amidst the stucco in several patches. A white oak tree, where gold was first discovered in the area, sits at the left edge of the image. The edge of the jail building is just barely visible at the extreme edge of the image, behind the oak tree. Trees are visible in the background.
The walls of the jail, though they appear as wood, are reinforced with boilerplate steel between their wooden layers. The smaller building on the right may house a cannon. The buildings and oak tree date to the 1850's.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20132
USC-1-1-1-14124 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20393
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20132
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20393.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Amador County--Volcano
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
Amador
California
USA
Volcano
Source
1-112-209 [Microfiche number]
20393 [Accession number]
CHS-20393 [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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