Placer Mines--View on Knapp's Ranch, Columbia, Tuolumne Co. – Historic Reproduction
![Placer Mines--View on Knapp's Ranch, Columbia, Tuolumne Co., [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/52/527906876d36-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Placer Mines--View on Knapp's Ranch, Columbia, Tuolumne Co.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Placer Mines--View on Knapp's Ranch, Columbia, Tuolumne Co.
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Few things in the gallery capture the Gold Rush landscape as directly as this view of placer mines on Knapp's Ranch near Columbia in Tuolumne County. Columbia was one of the busiest mining towns of the early 1850s, and placer operations like these, which washed gold out of gravel with water and sluices, reshaped hillsides across the region. The image survives as one half of a stereograph, a format that was hugely popular in the 1860s, when viewers used paired pictures and a hand viewer to see the scene in depth. This example comes from the Gems of California series, catalogued as number 1022, and the record notes that the caption information is unverified, so the date and details are best read with that caveat in mind.
| 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. 1022. 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 × 1,451 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115959 |
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