Hydraulic Mining--The Tail Sluices, Yuba River – Antique Wall Art
![Hydraulic Mining--The Tail Sluices, Yuba River, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f0b6f1d01dfe-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 Hydraulic Mining--The Tail Sluices, Yuba River, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hydraulic Mining--The Tail Sluices, Yuba River
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Hydraulic mining on the Yuba River is the subject here, specifically the tail sluices where the spent gravel and water were discharged after the miners had washed out the gold. Hydraulic mining used high-pressure jets of water to blast hillsides into slurry, and the tailings it produced clogged river channels downstream and fed the lawsuits that eventually curtailed the practice in the 1880s. This half of a stereograph was published in 1866 as part of the Gems of California series, so it captures the method at the height of its use, when the sluices were a common sight along Northern California's gold country.
| 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. 807. LOT subdivision subject: Hydraulic Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| 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-115641 |
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