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Title
The "Heathen Chinee" prospecting. 848.
Creator
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1856]
Publication Information
San Francisco, Calif. : Edw. J. Muybridge, 12 Montgomery Street
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
STEREO-0905
STEREO COLLECTION: MINES AND MINING: MUYBRIDGE, # 848
Photographer's no. 848.
Beige mount and back.
Imprint on front, Mining Scenes in California; on verso, Photographic Illustrations of the Pacific Coast and other text.
View of Chinese miner placer mining; shows man holding gold-mining pan squatting next to small watercourse, rocks piled in foreground, rock dam in distance. Man wears wide hat and has long pipe in mouth.
Negative, nos. 6636 (4 x 5 in.); 20,541 (4 x 5 in.) both sides.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier
(C)001386687CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9966
Subject
Gold mining--California, Northern
Gold miners--California, Northern
Dams--California, Northern
Chinese Americans--California--Photographs
California, Northern--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place
California, Northern
California

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