Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of sluicing operation at a placer mine, below Hunker, Alaska, ca.1894. The sluice winds its way down the slope. About ten tents are visible pitched in the forested slope. Several men are working near the sluice which is supported on both sides by numerous wood poles. The sluice empties at the bottom of the image.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 25 x 20 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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