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Hydraulic mining. Miners piping off top dirt

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Call Number	X-60066
Title	Hydraulic mining. Miners piping off top dirt
Creator(s)	Thomas Houseworth & Co.
Summary	View of a man using "Hydraulic Chief" type nozzles to aim jets of water at an eroded bluff, in (probably) California. Another man stoops in the gold mine, wearing a raincoat.
Date	[between 1865 and 1880?]
Notes	Formerly F37981.; Title printed on stereo card; at head of title; "795." Inked on back of stereo card: "Two streams of water are used. If you look carefully you will see a stream of water falling over the bluff in the background. That is all that water is used for. It falls on the dirt, washed from the hill by the streams from pipes, and washes it into and carries it along down a ditch."; R7100600665
Physical Description	1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 8 x 17 cm. (3 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of	Hydraulic mining.
Subject	Hydraulic mining--California--1860-1880. Miners--1910-1920. Mining--California--1860-1880.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Film negatives.; Stereographs.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F37981 DPLW
Filename	10060066.TIF