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Title: Suction Dredge on the Sacramento River
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Photo, taken on August 4, 1938, of a hydraulic or suction dredge, at an unknown location along the Sacramento River. A suction or hydraulic dredge was a floating excavator of material from the river bottom, which was then transferred to nearby levees. Refer to works by Edward Dutra in the Sacramento Room.
Type: image
Identifier: 1118
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2187
Subject: Dredgers
Mining and Dredging
Rivers
Levees
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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