Image / Flume [upper] Elevating Water Wheel [lower]

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Title: Flume [upper] Elevating Water Wheel [lower]
Creator: Britton & Rey, printer
Britton & Rey, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
1851
1852
1853
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Upper image is of miners operating hydraulic water wheels in a large flume. Lower image is of a wheel in a river pumping water into a sluice and tom, near which two miners are working. "Lith. & Published by Britton & Rey. San Francisco Cal."--text, below image. The number 16 is in the upper right corner of the sheet, indicating that this image may be part of a series. Paper color: buff.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 27 x 20.3 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.) overall.
Identifier: 48052:129
48792
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23526
Language: English
Subject: California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining--California
Gold panning
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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