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Title
[Gold Hill] (3 views)
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.
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.
View 1 (2010-0572). Gold Hill, from the Reservoir, Nevada. Shows buildings (Virginia & Truckee Railroad Depot, Yellow Jacket Mine, St. John's Episcopal Church), mills, trestles, railroad -- view 2 (2010-0525). Gold Hill, from the Wheeler Monument, Nevada. ShowsFort Homestead, hill in background -- view 3 (2010-0573). Gold Hill, Overman New Shaft, Nevada. Shows mine buildings, tailings, Watkins photo gallery wagon visible on left.
Also have negative: no. 9592 (70 mm) for 2010-0572; no. 9593 (70 mm) for 2010-0525; no. 9594 (70 mm) for 2010-0573.
Restricted.
Town of Gold Hill in Storey County, settled in 1860's.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographic prints mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. on mount 16 1/4 x 21 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001454281CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Buildings--Nevada--Gold Hill
Trestles--Nevada--Gold Hill
Railroads--Nevada--Gold Hill
Silver mining--Nevada--Gold Hill
Mine buildings--Nevada--Gold Hill
Gold Hill (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Aerial views
Place
Nevada
Gold Hill
Gold Hill (Nev.)

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