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Title
View of waste dumps at No's 1 & 3 furnaces
Contributor
Halsey, Abraham
Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company
Date Created and/or Issued
1879
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Description of and report upon the Great Western Quicksilver Mining Co's mine and property in Lake County, California Decr. 10th, 1879 / by Abraham Halsey and R.M. Wilson ; A. Hossack, artist. Plate 16.
2011-1153.
Quicksilver Mining Company was incorporated August 8th, 1872, producing first flask of quicksilver in Oct. 1873. Mine is located 16 miles north of Calistoga in Lake County.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 7 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001445677CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company--Photographs
Mercury mining--California
Furnaces--California--Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place
California
Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)

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