Image / Dam at Folsom Prison

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Title: Dam at Folsom Prison
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1880 and 1893]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2010-0716.
Shows hoisting machinery, convict laborers in striped pants, pipes, granite slab wall and several excavations.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on mount ; image 4 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. on mount 5 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001393393CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6757
Language: English
Subject: Folsom Prison--Photographs
Dam construction--California--Folsom
Prisoners--California--Folsom
Hoisting machinery
Digging--California--Folsom
Folsom Dam (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Folsom
Folsom Dam (Calif.)

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