Visual Materials
Views of New Almaden
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- Description
- A presentation album with 45 collotype photographs, with printed captions, of the mining town of New Almaden, California, and the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Co., showing schools, churches, miners' quarters, and the mines. Photographs in the residential areas of New Almaden show schools, houses, the "English Camp" and "Mexican Camp", and the "club room". Photographs of the mines and related facilities include a boiler room, hoisting works, pump engine, mine shafts, reduction works, quicksilver furnace, and slag dumps. A few of the photographs were taken inside the mines and have the caption "Taken by magnesium light". The final image is a reproduction of a drawing of a hoisting works from 1870 done by J. Ross Browne.
- Production date
- approximately 1887
- Call number
- photCL 79
- Provenance
- Purchased from John Howell Books, July 1925. Transferred from RB 64593 in 1984.
- Dimensions
- images 19 x 13 cm, sheets 24 x 30 cm, album 25 x 33 cm
