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Hydraulic mining in an open pit, California, ca.1880-1900
Photograph of a hydraulic mining operation in an open pit, California, ca.1880-1900. Several water pipelines and wooden chutes crisscross the bottom of the pit. Piles of rocks and debris litter the floor of the open pit. One worker is visible in the pit near a spout gushing water. The spot is aimed at the base of a large rock wall. A stand of trees is visible on the rim of the pit above at left.
Call number: CHS-1952
Filename: CHS-1952
Coverage date: circa 1880/1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1952
Microfiche number: 1-111-31
Archival file: chs_Volume37/CHS-1952.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): mine sites
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1880/1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m2768; USC-1-1-1-2836
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Mining -- Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Mines and mineral resources
Date circa 1880
date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
/1900 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/3667
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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