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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a long strip of smoothed rock left over from hydraulic mining in the American River, ca.1930. A long bar of fist-sized stones is pictured extending towards the horizon. The top edge of this pile just barely obscures a view of the treetops below, and is heaped into two interlacing mounds, a slight depression down the center. The mining was done by dredgers. Photoprint reads: "Miles of rock between Sacramento and Folsom -- the result of hydraulic mining by dredgers in the American River. Folsom can be seen many miles of rocks refuse from hydraulic mines".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm., 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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