Sucker Flat Mine Stereographs Between 1870 and 1871

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Sucker Flat Mine Stereographs Between 1870 and 1871

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The stereographs in this collection contain photographs from between 1870 and 1871. They show hydraulic mining performed by the Gold Point Mining Company, Blue Point Gold Mine, Union Claim Mine, S.C.H.M. Company, and Rose Bar Claim at Sucker Flat, Yuba County, California.

0.2 Linear feet; 1 Folder with 8 Stereographs

California State University, Chico, Special Collections, Meriam Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6652650

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Gold Point Mining Company

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Blue Point Gold Mine.

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S.C.H.M. Company.

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Rose Bar Claim.

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Mains and Shippy.

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Biographical/Historical note These stereographs depict images from the Sucker Flat Mine, Yuba County, California. The first hydraulic mining in the California decade of the Gold Rush (re: 1849-1860) was done at the Blue Point Mine in Sucker Flat near the town of Smartsville (Yuba County), California. It was here that the first large scale primitive methods of washing auferious gravels began. Because of the primitiveness of the water hoses, no...

Union Claim Mine.

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