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Title: California Mining Illustrated
Creator: Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1855
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Three views of mining operations including dry diggings: showing use of hydraulic equipment; wet diggings: showing use of sluices and waterwheels; and quartz mill: showing use of waterwheel and millstones. Text in center describes modes of working gold mines.
Printed title (UC). Printed (UC, below title): Barber & Baker, publishers, cor[ner] J & 3[r]d st[reet]s, Sacramento; (LC): Entered... 1855 by Barber & Baker... California. Printed captions. Handwritten letter on recto and verso.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 27.1 x 23.5 cm., image on sheet 27.1 x 46.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0b69n9tr
BANC PIC 1963.002:0004--B
Subject: Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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