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Title
Water flume in the mountains between Camino and Placerville, 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 a water flume in the mountains between Camino and Placerville, ca.1930. The wide canal is pictured at center, zig-zagging to the right distance where a sluice or funnel can be seen affixed above the flume's wooden siderails. Treetops from the mountain area below are visible to the right, while mountain face is at left. According to the picture file card "The South Fork of the American River flows one thousand feet below".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19086
USC-1-1-1-14142 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20284
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19086
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20284.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Flumes
Mining--El Dorado County--Placerville
Canals
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Camino
Placerville
El Dorado
USA
Source
1-112-239 [Microfiche number]
20284 [Accession number]
CHS-20284 [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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