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Lot 256
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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$300 -
500
Price Realized
$375
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Lot Description
[MINING - CALIFORNIA]. Album with photographs of Blue Hog Mine. Butte County, California, n.d.
12 3/4 x 10 in. leatherette album with 17 silver gelatin photographs, most approx. 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. with typed captions. Some pages have captions without images.
Taken in the early 20th century, the images show the Blue Hog Mine, a placer gold mine in the Yankee Hill mining region of Butte County, California. The images show mining equipment, sluices, miners, lodging, the nearby Feather River, and mining tunnels.