Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins, 1871-1876
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Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins, 1871-1876
Collection number: BANC PIC 1905.17175--ffALB
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins
Date: 1871-1876
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.17175--ffALB
Photographer:
Watkins, C. E.
Extent:
150 photographs in 12 oversize boxes
139 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Information for Researchers
Access
Original prints are restricted and may not be viewed unless permission is granted by the Curator of Pictorial Collections.
Viewing prints are available under the call number : BANC PIC 1905.17175--PIC.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins, 1871-1876, BANC PIC 1905.17175--ffALB, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image
files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto
35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD
files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
Related Material
The Bancroft Library has a large collection of work by Carleton E. Watkins. Search the pictorial file under Watkins for more
listings.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.197--PIC :
Title: Photographic views of the Golden Feather and Golden Gate Mining Claims by Carleton E. Watkins.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1974.019--PIC :
Title: Photographic Views of El Verano and vicinity, Sonoma Valley, California. Photographed by Carleton E. Watkins.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.198--PIC :
Title: California Scenes [1860's - 70's] by Carleton E. Watkins.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.199--PIC :
Title: Photographs of Yosemite and Oregon by Carleton E. Watkins.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.194--PIC :
Title: Photographs of the Mariposa Estate and Environs Taken by Carleton E. Watkins, 1860.
Title: Collection of Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, ca. 1874-1890, at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Univeristy
of California, Berkeley).
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C.E. Watkins was given to the University of California in 1909 by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson
Hearst. It was housed in the Hearst Mining Building until 1964, when it was transferred to The Bancroft Library.
Biography
Carleton E. Watkins was born in Oneonta, Oswego county, New York, on November 11, 1829. He was the youngest of five children
of a Scottish innkeeper. During his youth he became acquainted with Collis P. Huntington, who frequented his father's hotel.
Soon after the discovery of gold, both young men went to California, where Huntington later became one of the Big Four who
built the Central Pacific Railroad.
In 1854, while working as a clerk in a store on Montgomery Street, Watkins met R. H. Vance, the daguerreotypist who had studios
in San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento. The employee at Vance's San Jose studio had suddenly quit and Vance asked Watkins
if he would fill in until a permanent replacement could be found. Although he knew nothing of photographic processes, Watkins
agreed. For the first few days he was simply the care-taker of the studio, but when Vance could not find a new operator, he
instructed Watkins in coating the daguerreotype plates and making exposures. With only the briefest instructions, Watkins
was able to make portraits and completely operated the gallery for a short period. In 1857 or 1858 Watkins returned to San
Francisco where he established his own photographic studio for portraits and view photography.
Watkins usually spent a large portion of the summer traveling throughout California, leaving his gallery and studio in the
hands of an assistant. In 1858 or 1859 he visited the Mariposa Grove and was the first person to photograph the Grizzly Giant.
In 1861, Watkins visited the Yosemite Valley and made the first 18" x 22" landscape photographs in California (and possibly
the world). He made many more trips to Yosemite during the 1860's and 1870's.
In 1868 Watkins made his first trip to Oregon, where he made the first photographic reproductions of the Columbia River. Five
years later, Watkins went to Utah with his wagon, team and photographic equipment on railroad cars. Thanks to his friend Collis
P. Huntington, he traveled free. He was accompanied on this trip by close friend and artist William Keith, who made extensive
use of Watkins' photographs for many of his oil paintings.
During the winter of 1871-72, Watkins expanded his San Francisco gallery (the Yosemite Gallery), which put an extra strain
on his finances. When the Bank of California went under in 1874, Watkins lost his Yosemite Art Galley to competitors J.J. Cook and I.W. Taber. Not only did his competitors take over his Gallery,
they took all of his negatives as well. Watkins then began the task of rebuilding his collection, which meant rephotographing
many of the sites he had visited earlier in his career. Watkins' New Series of views replaced those lost in the foreclosure.
Watkins did become reassociated with the Yosemite Gallery, first as a photographer, and later as manager, but never as the
owner.
Watkins went to the Comstock Lode, near Virginia City, Nevada, in 1876. Here he made many of the photographs that comprise
the Hearst Collection. It was probably during this trip that he met Frances Sneed, who later managed his Montgomery Street
studio and became his wife on November 11, 1880 (Watkins' fiftieth birthday). They had two children : a daughter, Julia and a son, Collis.
In 1880, Watkins went to Southern California for the first time and traveled along the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Later he went to the End of the Track and as far as Tombstone Arizona. The photographs taken by Watkins on this trip represent
some of the earliest views of San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Pasadena, Los Angeles and San Diego. On the way back to San Francisco,
he followed the old overland stage road, traveling the greater part of the way in his wagon and photographing most of the
Franciscan missions. These pictures constitute the earliest photographic collection of California Missions.
On a second trip to the Northwest in 1890, Watkins made a series of stereoscopic views in Victoria, B. C. He extended this
trip into Montana where he made 18" x 22" views of the Anaconda copper mines and other properties. His last large commercial
job and long country trip was to photograph the development work of the Kern County Land Company near Bakersfield.He made
seven hundred views using 8" x 10" dry plate negatives. In the late 1890's, Watkins began to photograph the Hearst Haciendanear
Pleasanton for Phoebe Apperson Hearst, but ill health prevented him from completing the assignment.
Watkins was in the process of negotiating with Stanford University for the sale of his plates, photographs, etc. when the
1906 earthquake struck San Francisco. By this time, Watkins was partially blind, in poor health and experiencing financial
difficulties. He had been living with his family in his studio on the top floor of a building on the southeast corner of Ninth
and Market Streets. Immediately following the quake, Watkins' wife and daughter went to the refugee camp at the Presidio.
Watkins was lead by his son to the home of his old friend, C. B. Turrill, who had assisted Watkins financially in the past.
Watkins' entire collection was destroyed in the fire which followed the quake. He was shocked by the loss of his life's work
and shortly thereafter retired to his small ranch near Capay in Yolo County. The ranch had been deeded to Watkins through
the offices of Collis P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific Railroad for his faithful, but unpaid, service to the railroad.
Watkins never recovered from the shock of losing his entire collection in the San Francisco fire. He managed to live at the
ranch with his family until it became necessary to have him committed to the Napa State Hospital at Imola, California in 1910. He died on June 23, 1916 at the age of eighty-seven and was buried on the hospital grounds.
From
The Early Pacific Coast Photographs of Carleton E. Watkins, by J. W. Johnson, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of California Berkeley; and
The Life and Photography of Carleton E. Watkins, by Peter E. Palmquist.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 139 landscape views, 15 «" x 21", and nine 39" x 58" enlargements. Two of the latter are enlargements
of smaller 15 «" x 21" photographs. The two remaining photographs in the collection are of the drawing, Celebration of Admission
Day, October 29, 1850 and a painting of Sutter's Mill in 1867 by Charles Christian Nahl, the famous painter of California
pioneer life. These two views were probably popular sales items in Watkins' studio. The 39" x 58" enlargements are of miscellaneous
views in California. The 15 «" x 21" views are of three definite geographical areas : the Comstock Lode in Nevada; Nevada
County in California; and two mining claims on the Feather River in California. All of these smaller views are of the Watkins
New Series, (indicated in the listing as Watkins' no.) although some prints are not marked as such. None of the 39" x 58"
enlargements are marked with Watkins' name but they can be shown to be his work by the character of the printed titles and
by the fact that smaller photographs of the same views are definitely identified as Watkin's pictures. A complete list of
the titles of the photographs in the Hearst Collection is presented below. In this list Watkins' own photograph number is
shown (when appearing). All of the original photographs are albumen.
Comstock Lode: Nevada's Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859 and was world famous for more than twenty years. Much has been
written of the Comstock, but these seventy-seven photographs of the area at the height of the mining activity give by far
the most accurate record of this important era in American history. From the numbering of the photographs, Watkins apparently
visited the Comstock area on at least two different occasions; seventeen pictures (Watkins' numbers 410-426) were taken first.
Sixty pictures (Watkins' numbers 1039-1103) were probably taken at a later date. That Watkins visited Virginia City on more
than one occasion is obvious if a comparison is made between photos nos. 1 and 54 (U. C. numbers). In photo no. 1 a large
wood pile can be seen in a view of the Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works. The wood pile is completely gone in the view shown in
photo no. 54. The first of these views is also of interest in that it gives an indication of the vast quantities of timber
which has to be transported from the distant Sierra to supply mine timbers and firewood for the boilers at each of the Comstock
mines.
The date of the trip to the Comstock during which photographs nos. 18-77 were taken is fixed by a picture in the Zazarac Saloon
in Virginia City showing a panorama of Virginia City composed of photographs 75-77 (Watkins' numbers 1101-1103) and dated
October 26, 1876. This panorama was undoubtedly prepared in Watkin's studio as the printed title is typical of all his work.
Photograph no. 14 shows Virginia City rebuilt after the fire of 1875. Shacks and hovels had been replaced by substantial dwellings,
handsome brick business premises and mansions of mine owners and superintendents. The International Hotel, in the precise
center of this photograph, boasted many luxury apartments. The great Consolidated-Virginia mine, whose stacks appear to the
right and behind the International, is also shown in photograph no. 73. It was the richest silver mine in the history of the
world, producing $190,000,000 for Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien, the Bonanza Kings.
Photographs nos. 70 and 71 show the California Pan Mill with Virginia City and Mount Davidson in the background. This mill
had eighty 1000-pound stamps, forty-six amalgamating pans and a daily capacity of close to five hundred tons of ore. This
mill, owned by Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien was the largest and most efficient of the Comstock reduction mills.
A large number of the photographs of the Comstock show the stamping and reducing plants which stretched for miles along the
Carson River above Carson City and the town of Empire. Without "Carson Water", the milling of Comstock ores would have been
impossible. The water was used over and over again by successive mills along the river bank. Virginia and Truckee Railroad
was constructed in 1869 to bring ore down from the mines to these mills on the Carson.
Nevada County, California: After the river bars had been thoroughly worked over with pan, cradle and Long Tom, as illustrated
by photograph nos. 79 and 80, the miners turned to the working of the extensive low-grade gravel deposits in the ancient stream
beds which cut across the Mother Lode area. Working these deposits required a great deal of labor and capital and was usually
undertaken by a stock company. The only economical method of working the low-grade gravel deposits was the hydraulic method
of ground sluicing. It was necessary to construct a large number of reservoirs and extensive canal systems, thereby insuring
a continuous supply of water to the mines during the dry summer. Early mining ditches diverted either directly from the streams
or from natural lakes high up in the Sierra Nevada. As the demand for water increased, dams were constructed on these lakes
to increase their storage capacity. Many of these first dams were simple framed structures as, for example, Faucherie Dam
(photograph no. 105). Later most of the dams were constructed of masonry. The French (photographs nos. 107 and 108), English
(photographs nos. 93-96), and Bowman (photographs 90-92) Dams are examples of early dry-masonry types, some of which with
subsequent raised in their height, are still in use. When mining operations were at their peak during the 1870's, the famous
San Juan Ridge of Nevada County was the center of operation of three mammoth hydraulic gold-mining companies: the Milton Mining
and Water Co. of French Corral; the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Co. of North San Juan, and the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining
Co. of North Bloomfield.
Hydraulic mining eventually resulted in the filling of river beds with debris to the extent that it threatened agriculture
throughout the great Central Valley of California. As the beds of streams such as the Sacramento, Yuba and Feather rose, an
expensive construction of levees became necessary to protect agricultural lands from inundation and damage by sediment deposit.
Mining and farming interests clashed. The destruction, on June 18, 1883, of the middle dam of the three English dams forming
English Reservoir (see photographs nos. 93 and 95) involved what was probably the largest quantity of water ever set free
at once from an artificial reservoir . Although no criminal was ever brought to trial, the explosion heard by the caretaker
at the time of the failure of the dam indicates that it was maliciously destroyed.
The result of this conflict between the two interests was legislation giving rise to the famous Sawyer Decision, 1884, which
practically brought an end to hydraulic mining in California. Many hydraulic properties and their expensive investments were
left almost valueless.
Very few of the Watkins pictures of the Nevada County area now exist. The result of a commercial assignment, it is likely
that only a limited number of prints were made before the glass plates were cleaned and reused. The year in which Watkins
took his Nevada County pictures is established by the following article in the Mining and Scientific Press, November 7, 1871
: Photographic Mining Views --We had the pleasure a few days since, of examining some twenty photographic views recently taken
of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mines. The pictures, which were taken by C. E. Watkins, of this city, are really masterpieces
of the photographic art, and present the most perfect and lifelike representation of hydraulic mining which we have ever seen
depicted on paper. The mines are shown from several different points, and distant views are given of the line of the company's
ditches, their dams, reservoirs, etc.
These views have been taken to accompany and illustrate an elaborate report upon the mines, which has been prepared by Mr.
Attwood, M.E., who is acting in behalf of a company of English capitalists, with whom the owners of these mines are negotiating
for the sale of the same. The accurate distinctness with which they are shown, in connection with the topography of the country,
timber, etc., is really remarkable, and affords another instance of the value of the photographic art in aiding the engineer
to describe the progress and condition of his work. It is perhaps superfluous for us to state in this connection that these
are among the most valuable and extensive hydraulic mines in the state.
Golden Gate and the Golden Feather Mining Claims, Feather River, California: These two companies were formed in the 1880's
with English capital to extract gold from the gravel in the bed of the Feather River, a short distance upstream from the town
of Oroville. To work the gravel, the entire river was diverted. In the Golden Gate claim the entire river flow was carried
in a wooden flume 3,900 ft. in length when the discharge was below about 2500 cubic ft. per second (photograph no. 118). In
the Golden Feather claim, the river was diverted from its normal bed by a 6000 ft. canal along the right bank (photograph
no. 124). Pumps (photograph no. 137) kept the water level down in the river bed and the gravel was removed by Chinese laborers
(photographs nos. 132 and 133). A detailed description of these claims appears in the 1893 report of the State Mineralogist.
As in the case of the Nevada County views, Watkins apparently took the Feather River views as a commercial assignment, with
the result that except for those in the Hearst collection, few prints now exist. The Bancroft Library has a clothbound folio
(call no. : xffF862.3.W1397) containing drawings of the works on the claims and twenty-eight Watkins photographs ; some of
the Watkins views in this folio are not included in the Hearst Collection.
(From : The Early Pacific Coast Photographs of Carleton E. Watkins, by J. W. Johnson, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering,
University of California Berkeley.)
Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works - Virginia City, Nevada BANC PIC 1905.17175:001--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 410
Sierra Nevada, from the North Consolodated BANC PIC 1905.17175:002--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 411
Virginia City, from the Cemetary BANC PIC 1905.17175:003--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 412
Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works, Old and New - Virginia City BANC PIC 1905.17175:004--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 413
Sierra Nevada and North Consolidated - Virgina City BANC PIC 1905.17175:005--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 414
Old Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:006--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 415
Claim Stakes, between Sierra Nevada and North Consolidated - Virginia City BANC PIC 1905.17175:007--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 416
Wells Fargo Mining Company BANC PIC 1905.17175:008--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 417
Laying Foundation, North Consolidation BANC PIC 1905.17175:009--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 418
Office and Reservoir, Virginia City City Water Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:010--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 419
Reservoir on the Divide BANC PIC 1905.17175:011--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 420
Reservoir, with Mt. Davidson BANC PIC 1905.17175:012--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 421
Trout Hatchery on the Ophir Grade BANC PIC 1905.17175:013--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 422
Virginia City, from the Water Flume BANC PIC 1905.17175:014--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 423
The City and Sugar Loaf Canyon, from the Water Flume BANC PIC 1905.17175:015--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 424
The Combination Shaft, from the Water Flume BANC PIC 1905.17175:016--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 425
The Divide, from the Water Flume BANC PIC 1905.17175:017--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 426
Mexican Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:018--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1039
The Merimac from the Brunswick - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:019--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1040
The Merimac Mills, View East - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:020--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1041
The Merimac and Brunswick Mills - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:021--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1042
The Merimac - View down the Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:022--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1043
The Vivian Mill - Carson River, from the V. and T. R. R. BANC PIC 1905.17175:023--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1044
The Vivian Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:024--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1045
The Vivian Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:025--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1046
The Santiago Mill - Carson River, Mt. Davidson in Distance BANC PIC 1905.17175:026--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1047
The Santiago Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:027--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1048
The Santiago Mill - Carson River, from V. and T. R. R. BANC PIC 1905.17175:028--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1049
The Eureka Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:029--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1050
The Eureka Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:030--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1051
View up the Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:031--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1052
The Franklin Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:032--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1053
The Nevada Mill - Virginia, Nevada BANC PIC 1905.17175:033--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1054
The "Land" - 7 mile Canyon BANC PIC 1905.17175:034--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1055
The Windfield - 7 mile Canyon BANC PIC 1905.17175:035--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1056
The Empire State - 7 mile Canyon BANC PIC 1905.17175:036--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1057
The Pacific - 6 mile Canyon BANC PIC 1905.17175:037--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1058
The Baltimore Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:038--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1060
The Florida Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:039--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1061
The Florida Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:040--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1062
The Justice Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:041--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1063
The Overman New Shaft BANC PIC 1905.17175:042--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1064
Gold Hill, Nevada, View from above the Yellow Jacket BANC PIC 1905.17175:043--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1065
Gold Hill, Nevada, View from the Reservoir BANC PIC 1905.17175:044--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1066
Gold Hill - from the Wheeler Monument BANC PIC 1905.17175:045--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1067
The Bullion Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:046--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1068
The Bonanzas - from the Combination Shaft BANC PIC 1905.17175:047--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1069
Loading Ore from the Chollar BANC PIC 1905.17175:048--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1070
The Hale - Norcross and Savage - From V. and T. Round House BANC PIC 1905.17175:049--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1071
The Hale and Norcross BANC PIC 1905.17175:050--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1072
The Occidental Mill BANC PIC 1905.17175:051--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1073
The Savage Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:052--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1074
The Ophir Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:053--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1075
The Sierra Nevada Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:054--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1076
The Morgan Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:055--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1077
The Morgan Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:056--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1078
The Morgan Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:057--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1079
The Brunswick Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:058--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1082
The Brunswick Mill - Carson River (Interior View) BANC PIC 1905.17175:059--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1082
The Brunswick Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:060--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1083
The Brunswick Mill - Reservoirs BANC PIC 1905.17175:061--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1085
The Woodworth Mill - Carson River BANC PIC 1905.17175:062--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1086
The French Mill - Silver City BANC PIC 1905.17175:063--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1088
The Omega - Sight of the Gould and Curry BANC PIC 1905.17175:064--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1090
The Omega - Sight of the Gould and Curry BANC PIC 1905.17175:065--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1091
The Mariposa Mill - Virginia City BANC PIC 1905.17175:066--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1092
Utah Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:067--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1093
The Sacramento Mill BANC PIC 1905.17175:068--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1094
The California Pan Mill BANC PIC 1905.17175:069--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1095
The California Pan Mill BANC PIC 1905.17175:070--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1096
The California Pan Mill BANC PIC 1905.17175:071--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1097
The C. & C. Shaft House BANC PIC 1905.17175:072--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1098
Con. Virginia Pan Mill Battery and Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:073--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1099
Con. Virginia Battery, Mill and Hoisting Works BANC PIC 1905.17175:074--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1100
Panorama of Virginia City, Nevada (No. 1) View from the Combination Shaft BANC PIC 1905.17175:075--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1101
Panorama of Virginia City, Nevada (No. 2) View from the Combination Shaft BANC PIC 1905.17175:076--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1102
Panorama of Virginia City, Nevada (No. 3) View from the Combination BANC PIC 1905.17175:077--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1103
Nugget of Gold 201 44/100 ounces Spanish Dry Diggings, El Dorado County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:078--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 620
Placer Mining, Tuolumne River, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:079--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 985
Weapons of the Argonauts BANC PIC 1905.17175:080--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 621
Sutter's Mill, South Fork American River, Coloma, January 19, 1848 BANC PIC 1905.17175:081--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: ---
Canon of the South Yuba, with Blue Tent Mining Ditches BANC PIC 1905.17175:082--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1401
Blue Tent Saw Mill, Nevada County California BANC PIC 1905.17175:083--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1402
Lower Cars and Feely Lake - Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:084--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1403
Upper Cars and Feely Lake - Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:085--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1404
Courtney Lakes - Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:086--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1405
Blue Tent Mine - Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:087--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1406
Blue Tent Mine - Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:088--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1407
Blue Tent Hydraulic Mine, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:089--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1408
Bowman Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:090--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1409
Bowman Waste Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:091--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1410
The Bowman Dam and Keeper's Residence, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:092--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1411
English Dam (General View), Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:093--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1412
English Dam (West), Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:094--ffALB
Additional Note
Number: 1413
English Dam (Middle), Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:095--ffALB
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Number: 1414
English Dam (East), Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:096--ffALB
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Number: 1415
Malakoff Mine, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:097--ffALB
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Number: 1416
Hydraulic Mining, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:098--ffALB
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Number: 1417
Malakoff Diggings, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:099--ffALB
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Number: 1418
Malakoff Diggings (General View) BANC PIC 1905.17175:100--ffALB
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Number: 1419
Malakoff Mine, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:101--ffALB
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Number: 1420
Entrance to Tunnel, Malakoff Diggings, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:102--ffALB
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Number: 1421
Malakoff Diggings, "Under Currents", Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:103--ffALB
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Number: 1422
Malakoff Mine, Mouth of Tunnel, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:104--ffALB
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Number: 1423
Faucherie Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:105--ffALB
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Number: 1424
Faucherie Lake, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:106--ffALB
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Number: 1425
French Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:107--ffALB
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Number: 1426
French Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:108--ffALB
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Number: 1427
Weaver Lake, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:109--ffALB
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Number: 1429
Boston Hydraulic Mine, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:110--ffALB
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Number: 1430
Boston Hydraulic Mine (Piping), Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:111--ffALB
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Number: 1431
Eureka, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:112--ffALB
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Number: 1432
Cascade Below Bowman Dam, Nevada County, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:113--ffALB
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Number: 1433
Golden Gate Dam (no overflow) BANC PIC 1905.17175:114--ffALB
Golden Gate Dam (in flood) BANC PIC 1905.17175:115--ffALB
Golden Gate Dam (in flood) BANC PIC 1905.17175:116--ffALB
Diversion Flume Under Construction BANC PIC 1905.17175:117--ffALB
Diversion Flume Carrying River Flow BANC PIC 1905.17175:118--ffALB
Diversion Flume, Lower End (downstream view) BANC PIC 1905.17175:119--ffALB
Diversion Flume, Lower End (upstream view) BANC PIC 1905.17175:120--ffALB
Diversion Flume, Lower End (upstream view) BANC PIC 1905.17175:121--ffALB
Cofferdam at End of Main Diversion BANC PIC 1905.17175:122--ffALB
Downstream Side of Cofferdam BANC PIC 1905.17175:123--ffALB
River Downstream from Diversion BANC PIC 1905.17175:124--ffALB
Downstream Side of Lower Cofferdam BANC PIC 1905.17175:125--ffALB
Flutter Wheel in Diversion Flume BANC PIC 1905.17175:126--ffALB
Flutter Wheel Driving Pump BANC PIC 1905.17175:127--ffALB
Pump Driven by Flutter Wheel BANC PIC 1905.17175:128--ffALB
River Bed Excavation, Hoist in Foreground BANC PIC 1905.17175:129--ffALB
River Bed Excavation BANC PIC 1905.17175:130--ffALB
River Bed Excavation (walkway above) BANC PIC 1905.17175:131--ffALB
Chinese Laborers Excavating River Gravel BANC PIC 1905.17175:132--ffALB
Excavation of River Gravel BANC PIC 1905.17175:133--ffALB
Removing Large Boulders from Excavation BANC PIC 1905.17175:134--ffALB
Excavating in River Bed BANC PIC 1905.17175:135--ffALB
Pumping Water From Excavation BANC PIC 1905.17175:136--ffALB
Close-Up View of Pump BANC PIC 1905.17175:137--ffALB
Eroded Rock, Golden Gate Claim BANC PIC 1905.17175:138--ffALB
Eroded Rock, Golden Gate Claim BANC PIC 1905.17175:139--ffALB
The Colfax Party-Yosemite Valley, 1861 BANC PIC 1905.17175:140--ffALB
The Mother Lode - Mariposa County BANC PIC 1905.17175:141--ffALB
Placer Mining - Tuolumne River, California BANC PIC 1905.17175:142--ffALB
Sutter's Mill - Marshall, Discoverer of Gold, January 19, 1848 BANC PIC 1905.17175:143--ffALB
New Idria Quicksilver - Inyo County, 1857 BANC PIC 1905.17175:144--ffALB
Whitney Glacier - Mt. Shasta, 1868 BANC PIC 1905.17175:145--ffALB
Mission School House - San Jose Mission, 1854 BANC PIC 1905.17175:146--ffALB
Lone Mountain - From California Street, near Taylor, San Francisco, 1856 BANC PIC 1905.17175:147--ffALB
The Mission - From California Street, near Taylor, San Francisco, 1857 BANC PIC 1905.17175:148--ffALB
Celebration of Admission Day, October 29, 1850 - Corner of Montgomery and California Streets, San Francisco, looking North
(photo of lithograph, 32" x 57 1/2")
BANC PIC 1905.17175:149--ffALB