Image / [Main furnace of mining district, New Almaden, California]

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Title: [Main furnace of mining district, New Almaden, California]
Creator: Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1845-1851]
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: Compound of wooden buildings; main building has stone wall and tall smokestack. Possibly the mercury mine leased by Alexander Forbes in the late 1840's, which became one of largest producers of Mercury in the US. It was named after major mercury mine in Almaden, Spain.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC): Californie. Nuevo Alamaden . tour principal de l'asiento. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on tinted paper: pencil and white chalk 13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf567nb6sf
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:40--ALB
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Mining

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