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Title: General view of centre of vein & No 2 furnace
Contributor: Halsey, Abraham
Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Description of and report upon the Great Western Quicksilver Mining Co's mine and property in Lake County, California Decr. 10th, 1879 / by Abraham Halsey and R.M. Wilson ; A. Hossack, artist. Plate No. 2.
Shows mine buildings, bridge.
2011-1144.
Quicksilver Mining Company was incorporated August 8th, 1872, producing first flask of quicksilver in Oct. 1873. Mine is located 16 miles north of Calistoga in Lake County.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; image 7 x 9 in.
Identifier: (C)001443825CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company--Photographs
Mercury mining--California
Mine buildings--California--Lake County
Bridges--California--Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)

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