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Rare Books
Image is of hydraulic mining on an already heavily worked hillside. Pipes from the flume at the hill's top can be seen in the center of the image. "Barber & Baker, Publishers, Sacramento."--text, below image. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, upper left corner of sheet. Paper color: gray.
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Upper image is of miners operating hydraulic water wheels in a large flume. Lower image is of a wheel in a river pumping water into a sluice and tom, near which two miners are working. "Lith. & Published by Britton & Rey. San Francisco Cal."--text, below image. The number 16 is in the upper right corner of the sheet, indicating that this image may be part of a series. Paper color: buff.
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Image of a map from Oregon border to Monterey and Tulare Counties, and from the Pacific Coast to the Utah desert. In the upper right corner is a "Table of Distances from the Capital." On the right side is a list of the population of California and several cities. "Drawn & Compiled by Geo H. Baker. Published by Barber & Baker, Sacramento, Cal. Fishbourne's Lithog. San Francisco, Cal."--text, below map title. "Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1854, by Barber & Baker, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of California. Fishbourne Lithogy. California."--text, below image. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, above image. Paper color: blue.
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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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Image is of a deep river valley with towering, sparsely wooded hills. There is a small settlement at the foothill to the right, and various mining operations are set up in the river and on its banks. "Drawn & pub. by Edwin Glover. Lith. by Justh, Quirot & Co. Califa. corn. Montgy. St. S-Francisco."--text, below image. There is a line of handwritten text along the left side of the sheet. Paper color: gray.
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Visual Materials
View of flume, showing details, with tents in background in a canyon. Handwriting inside case, under plate, reads: "Louisiana Company's Flume on the Mokelumne River. Taken Oct. 1853. View of upper part of [__?] and all of the [Ramsbottom?] and a part of the [Minters? Bank?]." A list of names follows: "Capt. Birdsall, Boston; Capt. Bunker, Lowell; Demithy Reid, S.C.; Horatio Reynolds; H. E. Chesebrough & [Mathew?] Lightman; Luke Chesebrough; G. Shannon; Tom Thompson; Lorna; Shorb [C?] & Bell." In addition, another note inside the case reads: "Chesebrough's Flume, Maquilumne [sic] River, Calaveras Co. Cal. 1852, 1853 & 1854."
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