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Title
[Riverbed mining scene with fifteen miners, including Elmer Bliss.]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1852-1858]
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
Another view, laterally reversed, of this mining site is in the collection of The Huntington Library (Dag. 55). The site has been identified as near Taylorsville, Plumas County, but the source of this information is unknown.
View showing fifteen miners, some holding tools, working along a rocky river bank. Mining machinery and diversion flume structure visible behind miners.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 8.8 x 12.1 cm.
Form/Genre
Daguerreotypes
Group portraits
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000x9h08
BANC PIC 1905.16242:084--CASE
brk00040069_8a.tif
Subject
Men
Pioneers--California
Miners
Californios
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)
Gold mines and mining--California--Plumas County--Photographs

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