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Title
[California gold rush era river mining scene.]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1855-1858]
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
Accompanying notes from a previous owner indicate uncertainty as to location. It was thought to be a view of Coloma, but there is disagreement whether this type of water-wheel was present there. Dutch Claim at Poverty Bar has been suggested as a likely location.
Formerly in the John Dench[?] collection.
Right reading view of a mining site with men stopping work to pose.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : ambrotype ; half plate, visible image 11.2 x 8.2 cm.
Form/Genre
Ambrotypes
Landscapes
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000z0j20
BANC PIC 1995.045--CASE
brk00040363_8a.tif
Subject
Men
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Water-wheels
Mining districts
Tools

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