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Carleton Watkins

Malakoff Diggings, North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co., Nevada County, No. 1820 from the series "Watkins' Pacific Coast"

1871
Albumen print, stereo
7.9 × 7.7 cm (3.1 × 3 in)

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