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Title
Borax Mill at Daggett, California, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a Borax Mill at Daggett, California, ca.1890. A wooden building houses a chute. A ladder leans against the building. Hundreds of sacks of processed ore are stacked on a raised wooden platform behind the building. A mule team hauling a wagon of ore approaches the building. About 6 men can be seen on the platform, near the building and near a pile of unprocessed ore at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15020 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1409
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15020
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1409.jpg
Subject
Borax and Salt Industry
Industry--Borax (salt)
Salt industry and trade
Borax mines and mining
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
Daggett
San Bernardino
USA
Source
1-104-4 [Microfiche number]
1409 [Accession number]
CHS-1409 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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