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Title: Hydraulic Method of Mining
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of water falling from a high cliff in the background into wooden canals, a miner at the left using a hose coming from a hydraulic telegraph on the hill above to wash earth into a canal in the center, and another mining working in the canal. "C. Nahl. W. C. Butler, Engraver."--text, within bottom of image. Paper color: blue.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 25 x 19.5 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:169
48843
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23557
Language: English
Subject: California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Hydraulic mining
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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