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- Hydraulic gold mining
- This placer mine consists of a flume or sluice on an earthen dam; miners work with shovels and lumber.
- Flumes--1870-1900.; Hydraulic mining--1870-1900.; Miners--1870-1900.; Mining equipment--1870-1900.; Mining--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Hydraulic gold mining, Alder gulch, near Virginia City
- Miners sit and stand near hydraulic mining equipment at a placer mining operation in Alder gulch, Madison County, Montana. Water runs from the top of the gulch. Shows sluice boxes; water sprays from a monitor nozzle.
- Alder Gulch (Madison County, Mont.)--1870-1880.; Madison County (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.; Hydraulic Mining--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.; Mining--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.;...
- [between 1870 and 1880?]
- Hydraulic mining California Gulch
- View of a trench and sluice at a placer mine operation on California Gulch (possibly Lake County), Colorado. A building is nearby.
- Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1860-1880.; Miners--Colorado--1860-1880.; Mining--Colorado--1860-1880.
- [between 1865 and 1875]
- Hydraulic mining Hoosier Pass, Summit Co
- View of a placer gold mine near Hoosier Pass, Summit County, Colorado; shows an eroded chasm. A miner is by the sluice, holding a gold pan.
- Sluices--Colorado--Summit County--1860-1890.; Summit County (Colo.)--1860-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summit County--1860-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Summit County--1860-1890.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Summit County--1860-1890.;...
- [between 1860 and 1890?]
- Hydraulic mining near Virginia City, Montana
- View of a hydraulic mining operation in Virginia City, Montana; shows wooden sluices, a hose on a reel, rock tailings, a hoist and a section of the sluice or flume, and abandoned headgates.
- Sluices--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Virginia City (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Flumes--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Hydraulic mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1878]
- Hydraulic mining operation
- View of a placer mine by a river; miners pose by a rocker and sluice, climbing a pole, and in an ore car. A furnace and barrels are by pipes and a ditch; frame buildings, automobiles, and a freight car with letters: "C N N" [?] are in the...
- Hydraulic mining--1910-1920.; Miners--1910-1920.; Mining--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Hydraulic mining. The sluice blocks
- View of a placer gold mine sluice between eroded embankments in California.
- Sluices--California--1860-1880.; Hydraulic mining--California--1860-1880.; Mining--California--1860-1880.
- [between 1865 and 1880?]
- Hydraulic placer mining class
- View of a Public Works Administration hydraulic gold mining class, in Denver, Colorado; shows men with a rocker sluice and gold pans. One wears high boots, another smokes a cigarette.
- United States. Public Works Administration.--1930-1940.; Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gold mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.;...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Hydraulic placer mining class
- View of a Public Works Administration hydraulic gold mining class, in Denver, Colorado; shows men with a rocker sluice and gold pans. One wears high boots and uses a shovel.
- United States. Public Works Administration.--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gold mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Mining...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Hydraulic sluicing - Atlin G. M. Co., British Columbia
- View of Atlin G. M. Company placer gold mining in British Columbia, Canada; shows monitors, eroded embankments, miners, and a sluice.
- Sluices--Canada--British Columbia--1870-1900.; Gold mining--Canada--British Columbia--1870-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Canada--British Columbia--1870-1900.; Miners--Canada--British Columbia--1870-1900.; Mining--Canada--British Columbia--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Hydraulic, gold mining, Alder Gulch near Virginia City
- Miners monitor the flow of water through hoses and sluice boxes in Alder Gulch, Madison County, Montana. Water from the top of the gulch and from a monitor nozzle erodes the soil of the hill.
- Alder Gulch (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Madison County (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.; Hydraulic Mining--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.; Miners (Mont.)--Montana--Madison County--1870-1880.;...
- [1871]
- Illium [sic] Curve from toll road
- Panoramic view of a valley near Ilium Curve, a loop of narrow gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railroad track near Ilium, (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows an abandoned mine with a rail and plank sluice and log and wood frame buildings, dirt roads...
- San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Sunshine Mountain (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Industries construction
- Workmen dig with shovels near a sluice in Archer Canal in Denver, Colorado. A bridge on Alameda Avenue is in the distance.
- Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Canals--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Digging--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1904 and 1909]
- Industries construction equipment steam tractor in scene at Alameda subway site
- A workman adds oil to the engine of an M. Rumely tractor near the Alameda Avenue underpass construction site in Denver, Colorado. Another man poses near a sluice used to transport mixed concrete.
- Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Tractors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1909]
- Irrigation ditch
- View of an irrigation ditch possibly in Colorado. A sluice crosses above the irrigation ditch. Mesas are in the distance.
- Irrigation canals & flumes--1900-1920.
- [between 1901 and 1920?]
- Keystone placer mine giant at work
- View of mining operations at the Keystone Mine in San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows sluice boxes and a large pipe with hydraulic nozzles.
- Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Keystone Placer Mine, giant at work
- View of mining operations at Keystone Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows a large water pipe on a log and hewn plank support as a hydraulic hose with a monitor nozzle sprays the hillside. A sluice box carries run-off down the slope. Shows a...
- Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.; Penstocks--Colorado--San Miguel...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Keystone Placer Mine, sluice boxes
- View of the Keystone Placer Mine in San Miguel County Colorado. Shows mining buildings and sluice apparatus.
- Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Keystone Placer Mine. Sluice boxes
- View of the Keystone placer mine, shows frame mine buildings and a wooden sluice, San Miguel County, Colorado.
- Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Klondykers, Cottonwood Placers, Pinion [sic] Colo.
- Cottonwood Placer Company men stand and sit on a riffle box (sluice) in front of a cabin in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado, with picks, a shovel, and a gold washing pan. Sign reads: "Klondykers."
- Cottonwood Placer Company--People--1890-1900.; Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.;...
- 1897 Sep. 8
- Mine
- View of the shafthouse of a mine in Colorado. A wooden sluice is near the building.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Miners and sluice
- Miners with rakes and shovels attend a sluice system at an unidentified mine, possibly in Boulder County, Colorado.
- Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Miners inside a gold mine pit
- Miners use shovels and picks in a sluice and operate a crane on a hydraulic placer gold mining dredge, Park County, Colorado. Pipes run down the wall into the pit.
- Dredges--Colorado--Park County--1900-1910.; Gold dredging--Colorado--Park County--1900-1910.; Park County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Drilling & boring machinery--Colorado--Park County--1900-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Park County--1900-1910.;...
- [1900?]
- Miners near a sluice
- Miners and their families pose near a sluice probably in Colorado. Their cabins are nearby.
- Sluices--Colorado--1860-1880.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1860-1880.; Miners--Colorado--1860-1880.
- [between 1861 and 1875]
- Miners working on Boreas Pass
- Miners work a sluice with metal pans on Boreas Pass near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado.
- Boreas Pass (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Summit County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Mining Claim 14 and 15 below discovery, Deadwood Gulch, miners running sluice boxes
- Gold miners (one Black) stand by a wooden sluice in Deadwood Gulch in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
- Deadwood Gulch (S.D.)--1870-1880.; Lawrence County (S.D.)--1870-1880.; African Americans--South Dakota--Lawrence County--1870-1880.; Gold mining--South Dakota--Lawrence County--1870-1880.; Hydraulic mining--South Dakota--Lawrence...
- [1876]
- Mining equipment processing three men and a woman near a sluice box
- Miners pose near a sluice, probably near Denver, Colorado. A woman sits nearby.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Mining panning
- Miners pan for gold, probably in the South Platte River, near Denver, Colorado. A small sluice and a shovel are nearby.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Mountain Lion mine, 8 mi. east of Villa Grove on slopes of Sangre de Cristo Mts.
- View shows the portal, sluice, and diggings at the Mountain Lion mine on an unidentified slope, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Saguache County, Colorado.
- Saguache County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Saguache County--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 7, 1918 September
- Municipal Facts: Volume 7 Numbers 9 and 10, 1924 September-October
- Near Breckenridge
- Miners sluice a screen full of dirt at Blue River Diggings, near Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado.
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1890.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890]
- Near entrance to Clear Creek Canon
- View of Clear Creek at the entrance to Clear Creek Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) narrow gauge tracks and a sluice are on either side of the creek.
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1870-1880.; Sluices--Colorado--Jefferson County--1870-1880.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1870-1880.;...
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Near Ward, Colo.
- View of a sluice constructed on a mine dump and an unidentified mill building near Ward, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Spoil banks--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Old smelter at Ouray
- Remains of the Wanakah Smelter with smokestack, sluice, and elevated rail in the Paquin Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado.
- Ouray County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ouray County--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1930-1940.; Smelters--Colorado--Ouray County--1930-1940.
- [Between 1930-1940?]
- One of Colorado's irrigation ditches
- View of water running through sluice of an irrigation ditch somewhere in Colorado; field in background with low vegetation, flat horizon.
- Irrigation--Colorado--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920]
- Ore cars
- Miners work with mule-drawn ore carts and a sluice at a placer mine probably in Colorado. A tent is nearby.
- Horse railroads--Colorado--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Ouray and Portland basin
- Panoramic view of buildings, railroads, and wagons on probably the Otto Mears toll road near Portland Creek in the San Juan Mountains in Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows Denver and Rio Grande freight cars on tracks near dirt roads, frame...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.
- [between 1888 and 1900?]
- Colorado portrait and biography index : gathered and arranged from histories, magazines, newspaper files, land records, and many other sources, 1931, 1932, 1933, Denver.
- Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
- Colorado--Biography.
- 1933, 2005
- Pre-1963 Colorado mining fatalities
- An alphabetical listing of people who were killed in mining accidents in Colorado from 1884, when state legislation first required mining companies to report their accidents, through 1962.
- Mine accidents--Colorado. ; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado. ; Colorado--Vital records.
- 1995
- Fiftyniners' directory : Colorado Argonauts of 1858-1859. A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters.
- A transcription of two volumes originally created by Henrietta Bromwell pertaining to the lives and events surrounding the early settlers of Colorado.
- Pioneers--Colorado.; Colorado--Biography.
- 2004
- Payrock tramway, Georgetown, Colo.
- View of mine buildings and the aerial tramway at the Payrock Mine near Georgetown in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows a sluice box, chute, privy, and frames for the tramway.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Payrock Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Peabody Placer
- Peabody Placer, Summit County, Colorado, is hydraulic gold mine open pit with a sluice. A monitor emits a jet of water.
- Sluices--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.; Summit County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Pike's Peak from Colo. City
- View of Pikes Peak from Colorado City, west of Colorado Springs, Colorado; creek flows at center of image (probably Camp Creek); shows cottonwood trees, fence, water running through sluice, automobile parked in shadows, and mountains in background.
- Camp Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1900-1920.
- [between 1901 and 1920]
- Placer mine
- View of women posing by a hydraulic mine in (probably) Colorado; shows a jet of water, sheds, a sluice, miners, and eroded embankments.
- Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1860-1890.; Mining--Colorado--1860-1890.; Women--Colorado--1860-1890.
- [between 1860 and 1890?]
- Placer mine
- View of a placer mining operation in Colorado. A waterwheel and sluice are on the edge of a river.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--1930-1940.; Waterwheels--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Placer mine
- Miners pose with picks in and near a sluice, part of a placer mining operation.
- Hydraulic mining--1880-1900.; Miners--1880-1900.; Mining equipment--1880-1900.; Mining--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Placer miners
- Placer miners pose near a sluice and an ore feeder at a placer mining operation in Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Placer mining
- A view of a placer mining operation possibly in Colorado. What may be a sluice leads down to a river.
- Hydraulic mining--1890-1910.; Mining--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Placer mining
- People pan for gold by water; a man holds a hydraulic sluice rocker box, a woman uses a pan, and a boy has a shovel. A house with bays is by the river.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Gold mining--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]