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Title: Big Bar, Middle Fork [California]
Creator: Glover, Edwin S. (active ca. 1876-ca. 1877), artist and publisher Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1851]
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: Hydraulic mining operation in steep ravine along river; numerous buildings of mining camp, water wheels, and sluices. Miners working with picks along excavated hillside.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn & pub. by Edvin Glover; (LR): Lith. by Justh, Quirot & Co. Calif[orni]a, corn[er] Montg[omer]y St[reet] S[an] Francisco.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 31 x 40.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1199p1bf
BANC PIC 1963.002:0220--B
Subject: California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Equipment
Miners
Mining
Settlements

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