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Title: [California Pan Mill, Virginia City, Nevada] (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.
Shows mill buildings, tailings, trestle, buildings, homes.
View 1 (2010-0576). California Pan Mill, Virginia City, Nevada. Watkins no. 1096 -- view 2 (2010-0531). California Pan Mill, Virginia City, Nevada -- view 3 (2010-0577). California Pan Mill, interior view, Virginia City, Nevada. Shows vats for processing ore using Washoe pan process. Watkins no. 1095.
Also have negative: no. 7400 (4x5 in. and 70 mm) for 2010-0576; no. 9596 (4x5 in. and 70 mm) for 2010-0531; no. 9597 (70 mm) for 2010-0577.
Restricted.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 3 photographic prints mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 x 21 in. on mount 16 5/8 x 22 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001454292CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mills--Nevada--Virginia City
Buildings--Nevada--Virginia City
Tailings embankments--Nevada--Virginia City
Trestles--Nevada--Virginia City
Silver mining--Nevada--Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Nevada
Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)

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