File:View of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915 (CHS-5665).jpg

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View of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915
Photograph of a view of Sutter's Creek and the historical mine sites in Coloma, ca.1915. Trees and bushes cover the hilly land in the foreground. Sutter's Creek runs through the lowland ahead. Trees cover the mountains in the distance. Picture file card reads: "James Marshall discovered gold here, Jan. 19, 1848".; "On an icy cold morning early in 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, picked up a few nuggets of gold from the American River at the site of a sawmill he was building for John Sutter near Coloma. By August, the hills above the river were strewn with wood huts and tents as the first of 4,000 miners lured by the gold discovery scrambled to strike it rich. Prospectors, from the East sailed around Cape Horn. Some hiked across the Isthmus of Panama, and by 1849, about 40,000 came to San Francisco by sea alone. Nearly $2,000,000,000 in gold was taken from the earth before mining became dormant." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5665
Legacy record ID: chs-m17437; USC-1-1-1-14136
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5665
Coverage date: circa 1915
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Coloma
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5665
Microfiche number: 1-112-
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5665.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): mine sites
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Mining -- El Dorado County -- Coloma & Sutter's Creek
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): El Dorado
Subject (lcsh): Mines and mineral resources
Subject: Marshall, James
Date circa 1915
date QS:P,+1915-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17432
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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