FlumeElevating Water Wheel
Flume/Elevating Water Wheel
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- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print on blue paper of two views in the California mine fields. The upper view depicts a long flume with two water wheels along it. The lower view depicts a water wheel in a mountainous area. Prospectors work at a trough along side the water wheel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- maker
- Britton & Rey
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- Measurements
- image: 10 in x 7 3/8 in; 25.4 cm x 18.7325 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3874
- catalog number
- 60.3874
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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