Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County - The Tailings of the Columbia Claim – Antique Print
![Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County - The Tailings of the Columbia Claim, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/af/af77ff7fc330-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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Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County - The Tailings of the Columbia Claim comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 - The Tailings of the Columbia Claim
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Heaps of washed gravel and cobble from the Columbia claim in Tuolumne County are the focus of this view, a scene that shows how placer mining reshaped the Sierra Nevada foothills. Columbia boomed after gold was found there in 1850, and its diggings became one of the best-known camps of the Mother Lode. Published around 1866 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, the print is one half of a stereoscopic pair, meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The Library holds only this half, but it still records a landscape that miners had turned inside out.
| 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. 999. 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 × 1,447 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115782 |
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