Nevada County, California

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1068 ( 1401)	Canyon of the South Yuba River with Blue Tent Mining Ditches, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1068, no. 1401 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ¹⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Faint horizontal lines along back mountain are the ditches Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1069 ( 524)	National Flume, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1069, no. 524 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 524 Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1070 ( 523)	Magenta Flume, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1070, no. 523 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁷⁄₈ x 20 ¹¹⁄₁₆ in., mount 21 ¹¹⁄₁₆ x 26 ¹³⁄₁₆ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Title same on AGS & SU prints--numbered on AGS print Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1071 ( 502)	English Dam, Distant View, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1071, no. 502 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 502 Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	Quick View
1072 ( 1412)	English Dam, General View, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1072, no. 1412 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1073 ( 501)	View from Between the Two English Reservoirs, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1073, no. 501 Mammoth Plate (image 13 ⁹⁄₁₆ x 20 ¹⁄₂ in., mount 16 ⁵⁄₈ x 21 ⁹⁄₁₆ in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1074 ( 503)	Rudyard (English) Reservoir, Central Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1074, no. 503 Mammoth Plate (image 16 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ⁵⁄₈ in., mount 20 ⁷⁄₈ x 27 ⁷⁄₁₆ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 503 Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	Quick View
1075 ( 1414)	English Dam (Middle), Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1075, no. 1414 Mammoth Plate (image 15 x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Note man posed at end of walkway Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1076 ( 1413)	English Dam from the West, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1076, no. 1413 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁵⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Some clouding of neg., l.r. Note man posing in front of (large) puddle--casts a striking shadow in water Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1077 ( 1415)	English Dam from the East, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1077, no. 1415 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ³⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: At least two men, possibly 3, pose atop dam Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1078 ( 512)	Humbug and Virgin Valleys,Looking Southeast, Nevada County (A) CPM cat. no. 1078, no. 512 Mammoth Plate (image 16 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ¹⁄₂ in., mount 17 ⁵⁄₈ x 22 ¹⁄₂ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Part one of a two-part panorama. Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1079 ( 513)	Humbug and Virgin Valleys, Looking South toward the Mouth of Humbug Canyon, Nevada County (B) CPM cat. no. 1079, no. 513 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁵⁄₈ x 20 ¹⁄₂ in., mount 16 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁷⁄₈ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Part two of a two-part panorama. Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1080 ( 527)	Relief Hill Mine, General View, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1080, no. 527 Mammoth Plate (image 14 ⁷⁄₁₆ x 21 ³⁄₄ in., mount 21 ³⁄₄ x 27 ⁹⁄₁₆ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 527 Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	Quick View
1081 ( 515)	Malakoff Diggings from Colorado Hill, near North Bloomfield, Showing Water Playing against Gravel Banks, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1081, no. 515 Mammoth Plate (image 15 x 21 in., mount 16 ⁹⁄₁₆ x 22 ¹⁄₄ in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1082 ( 511)	Aqueduct Pipes Crossing Humbug Canyon to Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1082, no. 511 Mammoth Plate (image 16 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ¹⁄₂ in., mount 17 ¹⁄₄ x 22 ¹⁄₂ in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1083 ( 517)	Malakoff Diggings, Looking Northeast, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1083, no. 517 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 in., mount 16 ⁷⁄₁₆ x 22 ¹⁄₄ in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1084 ( 520)	Malakoff Diggings, Showing Offices and Workshops of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1084, no. 520 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁷⁄₁₆ in., mount 20 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ x 27 ⁷⁄₁₆ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 520. Titled â€œMining View, Nevada Countyâ€ in SFMOMA show 1998; in Fraenekl book. CEW # attributed, based on comparison between Taber title & visual evidence. Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1085 ( 521)	Union Diggings near Columbia Hill, Looking West, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1085, no. 521 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 521 Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1086	Eagle Diggins, Relief Hill, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1086, unnumbered Mammoth Plate Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1087 ( 516)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1087, no. 516 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹³⁄₁₆ x 20 ⁵⁄₈ in.) Notes: CMP notes: CEW number on CSL print Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	Quick View
1088 ( 518)	Malakoff Diggings looking East CPM cat. no. 1088, no. 518 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ¹⁄₁₆ in., mount 16 ³⁄₈ x 22 ³⁄₈ in.) Notes: CMP notes: Figures barely discernable, near monitors. Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of California State Library	Quick View
1089 ( 519)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1089, no. 519 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁷⁄₈ x 20 ¹¹⁄₁₆ in., mount 21 ⁵⁄₈ x 26 ¹³⁄₁₆ in.) Notes: CMP notes: CEW number on AGS print Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1090	Malakoff Diggins, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1090, unnumbered Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁷⁄₈ x 20 ⁹⁄₁₆ in., mount 15 ⁷⁄₈ x 20 ⁹⁄₁₆ in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1091 ( 1417)	Malakoff Diggins, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1091, no. 1417 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁵⁄₈ x 21 ¹⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Similar vantage as CEW 1418, but further away Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1092 ( 1418)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1092, no. 1418 Mammoth Plate Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1093 ( 1419)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1093, no. 1419 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1094 ( 1416)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1094, no. 1416 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ³⁄₁₆ x 21 ¹⁄₄ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: 5 men visible at the 4 monitors (2 at top, background monitor). OM print is framed with a CEW presentation label Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1095 ( 1420)	Malakoff Diggings, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1095, no. 1420 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1096 ( 1421)	Malakoff Diggings, Entrance to Tunnel, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1096, no. 1421 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1097 ( 1422)	Malakoff Diggings, "Under-Currents", near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1097, no. 1422 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Two men just visible on flume, middleground Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1098 ( 1423)	Malakoff Diggings, Mouth of Tunnel, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1098, no. 1423 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1099 ( 1429)	Weaver Lake, Nevada Cunty], Cal[ifornia] CPM cat. no. 1099, no. 1429 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁵⁄₁₆ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1100 ( 1403)	Lower Carr Lake and Feely Lake, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1100, no. 1403 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1101 ( 1404)	Upper Carr Lake and Feely Lake, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1101, no. 1404 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1102 ( 1405)	Courtney Lakes, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1102, no. 1405 Mammoth Plate (image 16 x 21 ³⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1103 ( 1402)	Blue Tent Sawmill, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1103, no. 1402 Mammoth Plate (image 14 ³⁄₈ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1104 ( 1406)	Blue Tent Mine, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1104, no. 1406 Mammoth Plate (image 16 x 21 ³⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: People in this photograph are indistinct because of distance and mist from water--they are assembled below arc of spray from foreground hose Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1105 ( 1407)	Blue Tent Mine, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1105, no. 1407 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁵⁄₁₆ x 21 ¹⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Companion to CEW 1406--different vantage. Men fainly visible running monitor hoses Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1106 ( 1408)	Blue Tent Hydraulic Mine, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1106, no. 1408 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ³⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: CEW moved much closer in (from similar vantage as CEW no. 1407), to now see man gazing at monitors Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1107 ( 505)	Big Canon Fork of South Yuba River, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1107, no. 505 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 505 Tags: California \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1108 ( 526)	Downeville Buttes, Sierra County CPM cat. no. 1108, no. 526 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Bancroft image numbered 526 on mat Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1109 ( 1411)	Bowman Dam and Keeper's Residence, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1109, no. 1411 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₄ x 21 ¹⁄₄ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Two men sit on porch at house; 1 cuts an awfully jaunty figure with his leg in the air Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1110 ( 504)	Bowman Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1110, no. 504 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 504 Tags: California \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1111 ( 1409)	Bowman Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1111, no. 1409 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ³⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Note 1 man with dog on dam (center); second man to his right Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1112 ( 1410)	Bowman Waste Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1112, no. 1410 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Note 2 men posing atop waste dam Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1113 ( 1433)	Cascade, below the Bowman Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1113, no. 1433 Mammoth Plate (image 21 ³⁄₁₆ x 15 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 28 x 22 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1114 ( 510)	Fall of Water from Ditch into Poorman Creek, and Catchwater at Graniteville, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1114, no. 510 Mammoth Plate Notes: CMP notes: Possibly CEW 510 Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County		No Image Available
1115 ( 1425)	Faucherie Lake, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1115, no. 1425 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1116 ( 1424)	Faucherie Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1116, no. 1424 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Three men on dam's walkway, but only 1 looking at camera Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1117 ( 1427)	French Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1117, no. 1427 Mammoth Plate (image 15 x 21 ³⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Three men visible walking atop dam walkway, near center Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1118 ( 1426)	French Dam, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1118, no. 1426 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1119 ( 1430)	Boston Hydraulic Mine, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1119, no. 1430 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ⁷⁄₁₆ x 21 ⁵⁄₁₆ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Notes: CMP notes: Men visible--at least 9--but tiny in proportion to image Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1120 ( 1431)	Boston Hydraulic Mine, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1120, no. 1431 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 21 ¹⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Mining \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View
1121 ( 1432)	Eureka, Nevada County CPM cat. no. 1121, no. 1432 Mammoth Plate (image 15 ¹⁄₂ x 21 ¹⁄₈ in., mount 22 x 28 in.) Tags: California \| Nevada County	Courtesy of Online Archive of California	Quick View

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