Hydraulic Mining Lynx Creek, Arizona
by Baer, Erwin
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Prescott, Arizona: Erwin Baer. Good. Boudoir Card. Boudoir card has photographer's imprint on verso and title written in ink on verso. No date but likely late 1880s-1890s. Photo measures 7" x 4"; card measures 8 ½" x 5". Moderate foxing, toning and soiling to card; moderate foxing and yellowing to photo. This photo depicts four or five men hydraulic mining in Lynx Creek, Arizona. Hydraulic mining dramatically increased the effectiveness placer mining, and in this image you can see why. Pressurized water jets from a nozzle and four men work the large sluices. Long pipes, carrying water to the mining site, can be seen on the hillside above where the miners are working. Hydraulic mining in Lynx Creek began in 1868 and continued to be successful enterprise into the 1890s. German-born photographer Erwin Baer worked out of Prescott from the early 1880s to 1910s, where he was primarily known as a mine photographer. .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022281
- Title
- Hydraulic Mining Lynx Creek, Arizona
- Author
- Baer, Erwin
- Format/Binding
- Boudoir Card
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Erwin Baer
- Place of Publication
- Prescott, Arizona
- Keywords
- Photography, Boudoir Card, MINING, Arizona, Lynx Creek, Arizona, Hydraulic Mining
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Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.