Image / La Grange Mining Co., Weaverville, Trinity Co[unty], Cal[ifornia]

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Title: La Grange Mining Co., Weaverville, Trinity Co[unty], Cal[ifornia]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [187-?]
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: Vigorous hydraulic mining scene with three hoses in operation watering down sides of artificial arroyo. Extensive hill erosion; long water sluice runs across the middleground; frame building in center; small figures about; forested landscape.
Handwritten title (UL).
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 60.5 x 81.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6h4nb6g2
BANC PIC 1963.002:1379--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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