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Title
[Riverbed gold mining, Mother Lode.]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1854]
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library;;, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu;;, URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections
Rights Information
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Description
Right reading image of a gold mining site with wooden river diversion structure in background. Numerous men work in the riverbed, with wheelbarrows along a plank structure at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : ambrotype ; quarter plate, visible image 7.4 x 9.8 cm.
Form/Genre
Ambrotypes
Landscapes
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000x9g7m
BANC PIC 1905.16242:050--CASE
brk00040035_8a.tif
Subject
Men
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)
Cabins
Mining districts--California--Photographs

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