Image / [Carson River, down the river, Merrimac Mill, Nevada], no. 1043

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Title: [Carson River, down the river, Merrimac Mill, Nevada], no. 1043
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1876]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Shows river, mill buildings, picket fence.
2010-0569.
Also have negative: 9590 (70 mm); 6877 (4x5 in.) detail of the image.
Restricted original.
One of five largest mills in Carson River Canyon, east of Empire City in Ormsby County.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. on mount 16 1/4 x 21 in.
Identifier: (C)001454226CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Rivers--Nevada
Silver mining--Nevada--Ormsby County
Mills--Nevada--Ormsby County
Ormsby County (Nev.)--Photographs
Carson River (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Nevada
Ormsby County
Ormsby County (Nev.)
Carson River (Nev.)

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