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Title: Auburn Ravine 1852
Date Created and/or Issued: [19--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: In E. F. Mueller Postcard Collection.
View of miners (including a woman) gold mining in Auburn Ravine, Placer County in 1852. A sluice and other mining tools and equipment are seen.
Reproduction of original daguerreotype, In Auburn Ravine, 1852, attributed to Joseph B. Starkweather. Original in California State Library collection.
2010-2877.
E. F. Mueller,
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001413645CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Gold miners--California--Placer County
Gold mining--California--Placer County
Gold mining equipment--California--Placer County
Sluices--California--Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)

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