Image / [Carson River, up the river, Merrimac Mill, Nevada], no. 1042

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Title: [Carson River, up the river, Merrimac Mill, Nevada], no. 1042
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 original.
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.
Mill buildings beside Carson River.
2010-0568.
Also have negative: 9589 (70 mm).
Restricted original.
One of five largest mills in Carson River Canyon, east of Empire City in Ormsby County.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 1/8 x 20 1/2 in. on mount 16 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001454225CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Rivers--Nevada
Silver mining--Nevada--Ormsby County
Mills--Nevada--Ormsby County
Ormsby County (Nev.)--Photographs
Carson River (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Nevada
Ormsby County
Ormsby County (Nev.)
Carson River (Nev.)

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