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Title: Hydraulic mining on Slate Creek
Creator: Schubert, Gustave H
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1896]
Publication Information: Nelson Point : Gustave H. Schubert
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2008-0902
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SIERRA COUNTY: SLATE CREEK
View of the tailings on Slate Creek below the St. Louis bridge with a giant hydraulic monitor (center) and Eureka Tunnel (upper right); Slate Creek Gold Mining Company, Alturas Mine. Handwritten text on verso of the photo describing the scene. Schubert photo no. 404; XIV on lower left corner.
Negative, no. 8,416 (4 x 5 in.)
Transferred from CSL's C.W. Hendel Manuscript Collection.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001389138CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2450
Subject: Hydraulic mining--California--Slate Creek
Gold mining--California--Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)

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