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Lettersheet - How the California Mines are Worked (126750)

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Lettersheet - How the California Mines are Worked   (126750)
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This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 19 @ 10:52UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Illustrated with various types of mining. Left: underground mining, with men wheeling an ore cart out of mine entrance in hillside, back; foreground, miners panning gold and using a long tom; center, a windlass lifting ore from a shaft; at right, a sluice with flume behind. (Issued before August 12, 1854. Related to RIVER MINING in format and execution.) See also Baird 88 (includes illustration here). Wood engraving 3 ¾ X 7 3/8 on a white sheet. Anthony & Baker Sc. [in block]. Baird lists 20 lettersheets from this company. Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street, San Francisco. Baird lists six copies: 5 Institutional; one private. Very good with left margin abraded and few small holes that do not affect illustrations, few small stains and red pencil 'Cowan' on reverse. [Baird, 104]

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