Title(s)

Gezicht op Spring Valley Mine in Butte County, Californië
Spring Valley Mine, Butte County (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-962-8

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Two streams piping. Gravel is washed into the deep bedrock cut which leads to the tunnel seen in background, right hand side of picture. This tunnel/ is three thousand feet long, and was driven to get outlet for tailings.’

Artist

• maker: Britton & Rey (mentioned on object)

Place

Butte County

Dating

c. 1885 - in or before 1890

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 112 mm × width 183 mm

What

• mine

Where

• Butte County

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Ninth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, for the Year Ending December 1, 1889 (RP-F-2001-7-962)