Hydraulic Mining - hauling Sluice Blocks, for the Blue Gravel Claim, Smartsville, Nevada County – Historic Print
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(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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This rare historic photograph captures Hydraulic Mining - hauling Sluice Blocks, for the Blue Gravel Claim, Smartsville, Nevada County in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hydraulic Mining - hauling Sluice Blocks, for the Blue Gravel Claim, Smartsville, Nevada County
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Few scenes show the labor behind California's gold rush as plainly as this view of crews hauling sluice blocks for the Blue Gravel claim at Smartsville in Nevada County. Hydraulic mining, which used high-pressure water to wash gold-bearing gravel out of hillsides, was reshaping the Sierra foothills, and blocks like these were set in long wooden troughs to catch the metal. The Library holds only one half of this stereograph pair, issued in the Gems of California Scenery series as no. 1401 and dated to 1866 in its record.
| 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. 1401. LOT subdivision subject: Hydraulic Mining. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,439 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115460 |
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