"Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining"

Hutchings, James M., 1820-1902 "Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining"

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GLC#
GLC09830
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1855
Author/Creator
Hutchings, James M., 1820-1902
Title
"Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining"
Place Written
San Francisco, California
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 27.1 cm, Width: 21.4 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Development of the West

One printing entitled, "Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining," published in 1855. Contains illustrations and information on various methods of mining; sinking a shaft, canals, hydraulic telegraph, sluicing, hydraulic washing, the guaskutus, ground sluicing, toming, turning the river, panning out, tunneling and rocking the cradle. Does include a caricature of a Chinese-American. Mentions mining towns.

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