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Title: 1856 James Lick's flour mill
Creator: Clayton, James A
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: View of James Lick's flour mill, which was built in 1856, and destroyed by fire in 1882. It stood alongside the Guadalupe River just north of Montague Road. The circular, cupola-topped building on the right is the brick "rat proof" warehouse; the three-story structure on the left is the mill.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 800 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into 8-bit, JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 5 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/463
Language: English
Subject: Buildings
Flour & meal industry
Industrial facilities
Mills
Lick, James, 1796-1876
Place: Santa Clara
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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