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Title: Ore shed and mine timbers at No 9 tunnel
Contributor: Halsey, Abraham
Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Description of and report upon the Great Western Quicksilver Mining Co's mine and property in Lake County, California Decr. 10th, 1879 / by Abraham Halsey and R.M. Wilson ; A. Hossack, artist. Plate 10.
Shows shed, stacked logs, men and one woman seated on logs. Group of Chinese workers in background.
2011-1148.
Quicksilver Mining Company was incorporated August 8th, 1872, producing first flask of quicksilver in Oct. 1873. Mine is located 16 miles north of Calistoga in Lake County.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001445672CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Great Western Quicksilver Mining Company--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--Lake County--Photographs
Mercury mining--California
Logs
Miners--California--Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Lake County
Lake County (Calif.)

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