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Title: Slate Creek mining operations
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1896]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0908
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD SIERRA COUNTY: SLATE CREEK
View of five miners standing next to flumes Slate Creek, buildings along the hillside. Handwritten note on verso of photo describes the location, somewhere in the middle of the 2 1/4 miles of the Alturas Mine that was lost by Hendel in a lawsuit.
Negative, no. 8,418 (4 x 5 in.)
Transferred from CSL's C.W. Hendel Manuscript Collection.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 6 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001389149CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2461
Subject: Gold mining--California--Slate Creek
Flumes
Slate Creek (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)

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