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Title: [C & C Shaft, Virginia City, Nevada]
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1876]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Shows mine buildings, tailings, Virginia City in background. Building in foreground is Nevada Brewery.
2010-0575.
Also have negative: no. 7095 (5 x 7 in.) and (4 x 5 in.).
Restricted.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 x 21 in. on mount 17 x 23 in.
Identifier: (C)001454291CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mine buildings--Nevada--Virginia City
Tailings embankments--Nevada--Virginia City
Brewing industry--Nevada--Virginia City
Silver mining--Nevada--Virginia City
Buildings--Nevada--Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Nevada
Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)

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