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Title: Hershmans [sic] Diggins [sic]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1906]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1999-0501
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: METHODS.: PLACER: HYDRAULIC: NEVADA CO.
View of Hirschmanns Cut in the extreme northwestern corner of American Hill, Nevada County, northwest of Nevada City; shows pipe extending down cut hillside (right) and supported on timbers across the floor below the cliffs washed away from the hydraulic mining.
Hydraulic mining was ruled illegal in 1884.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint as a postcard : cyanotype ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001378999CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2247
Language: English
Subject: Hydraulic mining--California--Nevada County
Gold mining--California--Nevada County
Mining--California--Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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