Placer mining in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County - Machinery for pumping – Antique Wall Art
![Placer mining in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County - Machinery for pumping, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/759eef183ca1-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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Step back in time with Placer mining in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County - Machinery for pumping, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Placer mining in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County - Machinery for pumping
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Brown's Flat, in Tuolumne County in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is the setting for this view of pumping machinery at work in a placer mining operation. Placer miners worked gold-bearing gravel in streambeds and flats, and pumps were needed to move water for washing the gravel and to keep diggings from flooding. The print is one half of a stereograph pair issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, which sold stereo views of the state to a national audience in the 1860s. Only the left half survives in this collection, so the paired view is not available here. The 1866 publication date comes from an old caption card and has not been independently 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. 973. 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 × 1,454 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115690 |
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