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Title: Fair Play Mine (2 views)
Contributor: Griffiths, Phillip William
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1880 and 1899]
Publication Information: Marysville, Cal. : Elite Gallery, Griffiths
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0892
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SIERRA COUNTY: FAIR PLAY MINE
Two views of the Fair Play mine on Rock Creek near Downieville. View 1 (2008-0892) shows a flume in a narrow trench; view 2 (2008-0893) shows the trench (center bottom), rocky hillsides, bare from hydraulic mining; bridge across the image in the foreground.
Transferred from CSL's C.W. Hendel Manuscript Collection.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints on boudoir cards ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001389079CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2391
Subject: Gold mining--California--Sierra County
Hydraulic mining--California--Sierra County
Sierra County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place: California
Sierra County
Sierra County (Calif.)

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