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1. The mining business in four pictures
- Published / Created:
- [between 1852 and 1860?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 428
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
- Publisher:
- Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
- Subject (Geographic):
- California
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The mining business in four pictures
2. The mining business in four pictures
- Published / Created:
- [between 1852 and 1860?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 429
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
- Publisher:
- Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
- Subject (Geographic):
- California
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The mining business in four pictures
3. [Photograph of placer gold mining on the American River, Middle Fork, California].
- Creator:
- Weed, Charles L., photographer
- Published / Created:
- [1858 February]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos Folio 161 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A salted paper photographic print that documents placer gold mining operations on river bars on the American River, Middle Fork, between Placer County and Eldorado County, California in February 1858. From an elevated position, the view shows mining operations on a wide riverbed running through hills of chaparral. The photograph depicts a viaduct, wooden structures, and water diversion structures, such as sluices, sluice gates, and waterwheels. The image includes mining camps and operations on the Kennebec, Wildcat, Willow, and Hoosier bars
- Description:
- Charles L. Weed (1824-1903), also known as Charles Leander Weed, was an American photographer and engraver. and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, American River Region, American River, Middle Fork, American River Valley, American River, Middle Fork (Calif.), El Dorado County (Calif.), and Placer County (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Weed, Charles L.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chaparral, Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering), Gold mines and mining, Mines and mineral resources, Mining districts, Placer mining, and Water-wheels
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Photograph of placer gold mining on the American River, Middle Fork, California].
