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California Mining Illustrated. Dry Diggings, Wet Diggings & Quartz Mill
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Image of dry diggings on a hill to the left, wet diggings on a river to the right, and a smaller vignette of a quartz mill in the lower center. The left and right vignettes are labeled with letters and numbers which correspond to descriptions of mining processes explained in the printed text in the center of the sheet. "Barber & Baker, Publishers, cor. J & 3d sts., Sacramento."--text below title of image. "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1855, by Barber & Baker, in the Clerk's office of the District Court, for the Northern District of California."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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J. D. Wilson, dealer in dry goods groceries
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Image of a man in a suit and top hat driving a horse-drawn cart full of dry goods; a woman in robes stands on a rising sun printed with the words "Good times are coming 1881" (a Morgan silver dollar) and holds a banner that reads "Low prices good goods and plenty of them," and a basket in her other hand; cherub with horn of plenty at right; monster with a sign that reads "hard times" is seen in the distance; image of an elephant carrying a streaming banner with its trunk that reads "The cheap store!" printed below.
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The course of water : fieldnotes from California's Owens Valley
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"'The course of water - fieldnotes from California's Owen Valley' explores the environmental and social histories of California's Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people - Indigenous, settler, internee - who have called it home. At the turn of the twentieth century, a lack of water resources threatened to stall the growth of Los Angeles. The city began diverting water from the Owens River - over 200 miles away - culminating in the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. This led to the eventual desiccation of Owens Lake and much of the surrounding valley"--From back cover.
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Secret city
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Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverly Hills, Cal
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