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Title: Hydraulic Mining-Washing down the bank into the Sluice. # 796.
Contributor: Thomas Houseworth & Co
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1874 and 1886]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Thomas Houseworth & Co
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: STEREO-1613
STEREO COLLECTION: MINES & MINING: THOMAS HOUSEWORTH & CO., # 796.
"Hydraulic Mining"-on front.
Orange mount; pink verso.
View of hydraulic mining. Several monitors are seen blasting water onto cliff. Two miners are also seen next to monitors.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001388750CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2057
Language: English
Subject: Gold mining--California
Hydraulic mining--California
California--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place: California

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