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Scene in a mine, Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County – Antique Print

Scene in a mine, Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Scene in a mine, Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County, [published 1866]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Scene in a mine, Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Scene in a mine, Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County

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Brown's Flat, a mining camp in Tuolumne County in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, is the setting for this view of work inside a mine. Placer mining drew large numbers of prospectors to the county during the Gold Rush, and by the mid-1860s, when this card was published as number 974 in the Gems of California series, mining remained the region's main industry. The Library holds only one half of the original stereographic pair, so the image survives as a single view, and its caption details come from an old card that has not been independently verified.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 974. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,443 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115691

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