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Title: Alturas Mine on Slate Creek (3 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1880]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0924
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SIERRA COUNTY: SLATE CREEK
Three views of the Alturas Mine on Slate Creek.
View 1 (2008-0924) shows elevating machine and sluice box, miner at the right -- View 2 (2008-0925) shows miners working the tailings -- view 3 (2008-0926) shows snow covered hillside, cabins, and creek (center).
Negatives, no. GL 1,181 (4 x 5 in.) 2008-0924; GL 1,882 (4 x 5 in.) 2008-0925; GL 1,183 (4 x 5 in.) 2008-0926.
Negatives transferred from CSL's C.H. Hendel Manuscript Collection.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 3 photographic prints ; 4 x 5 in.
Identifier: (C)001389157CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2469
Subject: Gold mining--California--Slate Creek
Buyildings--California--Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)

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