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Title: [National Flume], no. 524
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1868 and 1871]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: 2005-0714.
View of a wooden flume carrying water for hydraulic mining operations down a hill. The flume curves through the trees and seems to empty on the ground in the left foreground.
Restricted original.
Negative, no. 9,557 (70 mm and 4 x 5 in.).
National Flume built by the Eureka Lake Company in Nevada County.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 16 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. on mount 17 x 22 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001386842CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0124
Language: English
Subject: Flumes
Hydraulic mining--California--Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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