Placer Mining, Flume in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County, No. 970 from the series "Placer Mining"
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 8 × 7.8 cm (3 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Card: 8.7 × 17.6 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
stereograph (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
108770
Art Historical Context
Step into the rugged world of California's Gold Rush aftermath with *Placer Mining, Fl in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County*, No. 970 from Houseworth and Company's *Placer Mining* seriesc. 1868). This stereograph, an albumen print mounted on a card, captures the ingenuity of 19th-century miners at work. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images create a vivid three-dimensional scene of a wooden flume—a sloping water channel—snaking through the Sierra Nevada landscape in Tuolumne County. Houseworth's San Francisco firm specialized in such documentary photography, producing thousands of stereo...