Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County, General View of the Dump-box – Vintage Photo Print
![Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County, General View of the Dump-box, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/5151b71a4d65-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--Columbia, Tuolumne County, General View of the Dump-box, 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--Columbia, Tuolumne County, General View of the Dump-box
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Columbia, in Tuolumne County, was one of the best-known gold camps in the California Sierra Nevada, and this view centers on the dump-box, the wooden frame at the lower end of a sluice where spent gravel was emptied after the gold had been caught. Placer mining like this, which used running water to wash gold out of loose gravel, reshaped the foothills during the 1850s and 1860s. The picture is one half of a stereograph pair from the *Gems of California Scenery* series, meant to be viewed in depth through a stereoscope, and only this card survives here.
| 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. 1011. 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 × 1,460 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115898 |
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