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LL/101890
Unidentified photographer
1852-1858 (ca)
[Riverbed mining scene with fifteen miners, including Elmer Bliss.]

Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1905.16242:084--CASE
 
Another view, laterally reversed, of this mining site is in the collection of The Huntington Library (Dag. 55). The site has been identified as near Taylorsville, Plumas County, but the source of this information is unknown.
 
View showing fifteen miners, some holding tools, working along a rocky river bank. Mining machinery and diversion flume structure visible behind miners.
 
LL/101890


 

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