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Title
View of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, 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 a view of Estelle Mines Corporation property, showing an automobile making its way down a dirt road, ca.1900. At center is an automobile driving along a dirt road on the side of a desert hill. A wooden structure which appears to be a power station is visible to the left of the automobile. Lines run alongside a portion of the road, while rolling hills are visible throughout and in the background. A white one-story structure is visible on top of a distant hill. Photoprint reads: "General view of property of Estelle Mines Corporation Cerro Gordo mining district. Showing portion of main tunnel camp, aerial tramway, Morning Star Gold Mine and outcrop of San Felipe vein on crest of mountain".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20688
USC-1-1-1-14107 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46202
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20688
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46202.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--General
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
46202 [Accession number]
84-1-952 [Microfiche number]
CHS-46202 [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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