Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Report on the Red Hill hydraulic gold mines, Junction City mining district, Trinity County, California
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![[Hydraulic mining, possibly at Relief Hill mine, Nevada County, California?]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4QDAFRX%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
[Watkins number unknown] Distant view of water spraying into rock, possibly at Relief Hill, based on writing in pencil at bottom of print, mostly illegible: "What Chear and Walkinsaw con / Relief Hill [?]" in lowest right corner. Date determined by cataloger based on dates of two other mammoth plate prints Watkins made at Relief Hill (see Naef nos. 1080, 1086).
photCL Watkins 52
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Visual Materials
[Watkins number unknown] Distant view of water spraying into rock, possibly at Relief Hill, based on writing in pencil at bottom of print, mostly illegible: "What Chear and Walkinsaw con / Relief Hill [?]" in lowest right corner. Date determined by cataloger based on dates of two other mammoth plate prints Watkins made at Relief Hill (see Naef nos. 1080, 1086).
(photCL Watkins 52)
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
mssArnold
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.
mssJaninc
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
mssArnold