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Title
The "Heathen Chinee" prospecting Calif year 1852.
Creator
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Date Created and/or Issued
1856
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2016-0054.
View of Chinese miner placer mining; shows man holding gold-mining pan squatting next to small watercourse, rocks piled in foreground, rock dam in distance. Man wears wide hat and has long pipe in mouth.
Negative, nos. 6636 (4 x 5 in.); taken from Muybridge stereo, 848.
Reproduction. Originally published as steregraph by Edward J. Muybridge.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 9 3/4 x 8 in.
Identifier
(C)001559190CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Gold mining--California, Northern
Gold miners--California, Northern
Dams--California, Northern
Chinese Americans--California--Photographs
California, Northern--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California, Northern
California

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