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Title
View of cyanide tanks at a mining operation in the Mojave Desert, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of cyanide tanks at a mining operation in the Mojave Desert, ca.1900. The giant vats are filled to the rim with fluid (some foamy and some placid). The building is supported by a perplexed system of wooden beams. Photoprint reads: "Mojave mining district, Karma Mining Company".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10058
USC-1-1-1-14115 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5101
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10058
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5101.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Deserts
Mining--Mojave Desert mines
Mine sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
deserts: Mojave Desert
Source
1-111-55 [Microfiche number]
5101 [Accession number]
CHS-5101 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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