[Hydraulic mining, possibly at Relief Hill mine, Nevada County, California?] | Collections | The Huntington

[Hydraulic mining, possibly at Relief Hill mine, Nevada County, California?] | Collections | The Huntington

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[Hydraulic mining, possibly at Relief Hill mine, Nevada County, California?]
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[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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Union Diggings, Relief Hill, Nevada Co. California
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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).
photST Watkins
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[Pacific Mining Company, Six-Mile Canyon, Storey County, Nevada]
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[Watkins no. 1058] Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "Pacific Mill. Gold Hill."
(photCL Watkins 71)
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[View up the Carson River, Lyon County, Nevada]
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[Watkins no. 1052] The tracks of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad are seen winding along a river. Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The Eureak [sic] Dam - [illegible] and Tramway- Carson River."
(photCL Watkins 66)
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[The "Land" Mining Company, Seven-Mile Canyon, Storey County, Nevada]
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[Watkins no. 1055] Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The Coinfield[?] Mill."
(photCL Watkins 69)
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[Windfield Mining Company, Seven-Mile Canyon, Storey County, Nevada]
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[Watkins no. 1056] Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The Land mill."
(photCL Watkins 68)