Placer Mining, The Tail Flume in Columbia Gulch, Tuolumne County – Vintage Print
![Placer Mining, The Tail Flume in Columbia Gulch, Tuolumne County, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3f75053cf9d1-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Placer Mining, The Tail Flume in Columbia Gulch, Tuolumne County, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Placer Mining, The Tail Flume in Columbia Gulch, Tuolumne County
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Columbia Gulch, in Tuolumne County, is the setting for this view of a tail flume, the channel that carried spent gravel and water away from a placer mining operation. Flumes like this were a common sight across the Sierra Nevada foothills in the decades after the Gold Rush began, when miners washed gold from creek beds and gravel. The Library holds only one half of this stereograph pair, issued as number 1019 in the Gems of California scenery series, and the 1866 date comes from a caption card whose details have not been verified.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1019. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,427 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116500 |
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