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Grass Valley Quartz Mining Company's Works (formerly owned by John A. Colins & Co.) [Nevada County, California]

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Title: Grass Valley Quartz Mining Company's Works (formerly owned by John A. Colins & Co.) [Nevada County, California]
Creator: Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, 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: Country road surrounded by forest with company's buildings and works (ore piles in front of mill). Onlookers observing operations, workers performing tasks, several oxen and horse-drawn wagons loaded with ore.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn from nature Dec[embe]r 7th, 1851; (LR): Lith. of Sarony & Major, 117 Fulton St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 43.5 x 46.5 cm., visible image, dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7g501180
BANC PIC 1963.002:1468--FR
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Industry
Mining
Vehicles

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