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Title: [Mercury mine at 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
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Description: Works of mercury mine; various brick and wooden buildings at base of hills; trees felled, foreground, and in right distance. Possibly the mining establishment, operated by Alexander Forbes, named after Almaden mercury mines in Spain.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC): Californie - établissement (asiento) des mines de mercure de la nueva almaden. See also item 1963.002:0040. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6v19p4bp
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:31--ALB
Subject: California, Northern
Mining

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