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[Large dredge being used in gold-dredging operation on Yuba River (?) near Marysville, Calif.] – Antique Wall Art

[Large dredge being used in gold-dredging operation on Yuba River (?) near Marysville, Calif.], c1908. — historic photograph
[Large dredge being used in gold-dredging operation on Yuba River (?) near Marysville, Calif.], c1908.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Near Marysville, where the caption places this dredge on the Yuba River or possibly another nearby stream, a floating machine of this size could work the gravel bed day and night. Dredges like it dug with a chain of buckets, washed the material through sluices on board, and discharged the leftover tailings behind them. By about 1908, dredging had become a major way to recover gold from California's river gravels, partly because the 1884 Sawyer Decision had restricted hydraulic mining, which had buried valley farmland under debris. The record's details are unverified, so treat the exact location with some caution.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by J.H. Hogan. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dredges; Gold--Dredging; California--Marysville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135307

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