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Title: Mount Ophir. Mariposa County
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1874
Publication Information: San Francisco : C.E. Watkins
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: 2008-2308.
Plates in photograph album: Photographic views of one hundred and twelve of the principal and most picturesque places of California, vol. 3, page 78.
View of Mount Ophir and buildings in Mariposa County. Unpaved road is at left, small piles of rock and debris are seen at right, mountain is beyond.
Also have negative number: 9,005 (4x5 in.); 29,073 (4x5 color transparency).
Early gold mining camp. First private mint, Moffat & Co.'s Mount Ophir Mint, operated here in early 1840's.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Identifier: (C)001391259CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-4589
Language: English
Subject: Buildings--California--Mount Ophir
Dirt roads--California--Mount Ophir
Mount Ophir (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mount Ophir
Mount Ophir (Calif.)

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