Cabinet Card View of Malakoff Diggins, Nevada County, CA, 1870s
Albumen print
4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
With photographer's credit recto and notations, in pencil, verso.
A handsome cabinet card photograph showing Malakoff diggins in Nevada county, CA. Malakoff was the largest hydraulic mining city in California and was one of several hydraulic mining sites at...
A handsome cabinet card photograph showing Malakoff diggins in Nevada county, CA. Malakoff was the largest hydraulic mining city in California and was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company, which resulted in the nation’s first environmental law.