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Title
Old waterwheel at the Shelton Mine in Mammoth City, ca.1930
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an old waterwheel at the Shelton Mine in Mammoth City, ca.1930. The wheel, built around 1878-1879 and used for crushing ore, is pictured at center, the wheel itself visible in profile at left, with a sluice and gears visible to the right. The wheel was constructed when mining activity was at its height in the Mammoth region.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20071
USC-1-1-1-14166 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20343
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20071
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20343.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Mono County--General
Hydrographic structures
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Mammoth City
Mono
USA
Source
1-112-150 [Microfiche number]
20343 [Accession number]
CHS-20343 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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