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Title: Mining Auburn Ravine, Cal.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1906]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1999-0502
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: METHODS.: PLACER: HYDRAULIC: PLACER CO.
View of miners along hillside with water cannon washing away soil; two boys sitting in foreground watching activity.
Hydraulic mining was declared illegal in 1884. The postcard dates from ca. 1906. Date of image not determined.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint as a postcard ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001378998CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2246
Language: English
Subject: Hydraulic mining--California--Placer County
Gold mining--California--Placer County
Mining--California--Placer County
Gold miners--California--Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)

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