Photograph depicts a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a man panning for gold in a shallow river with a forested landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Jas Ferguson testing values by panning - Germansen Placer Ltd."
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring a water flume in the shape of a horseshoe built along a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Horshoe Creek"
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring construction of two water flumes across a narrow valley between a forested landscape.
Photo depicts a large sled loaded with large metal tubing, a tent and a pile driver(?)
Photograph depicts several long logs laid out across a wide ditch with a forest landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Early in April trees put across ditch to make footing for caterpillar tractor".
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Logs. on Railway".
Photograph depicts six sled dogs and three men standing beside a loaded two horse wagon on a forest road.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of an empty wooden flume (?) situated at the top of a mountainside in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of an empty wooden flume (?) situated at the top of a mountainside in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of water-filled ditchlines and holding onto surveying (?) equipment.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of water-filled ditchlines and holding onto surveying (?) equipment.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside a ditchline filled with water.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside a ditchline filled with water.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.
Photograph depicts unidentified man standing near mining ditches.
Photograph depicts unidentified man standing near mining ditches.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a hillside in front of a pile driver located in a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a newly constructed wooden roadway that winds through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a wooden road beside a steamshovel in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a wooden road beside a steamshovel in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a man standing in the foreground of the photo on a wooden trestle that leads through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Tressle for carrying flume across Valley of South from Germansen Creek. This is continuous tressle for nearly 2000 feet. Maximum height 54feet."
Photograph depicts a man leaning over in front of a tall wooden pile driver in a forest environment. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile driver sec.#1. This is a gravel point"
Photograph depicts two men aboard a two horse driven sleigh stopped on a snow covered path. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "The Top of Bald Mountain"
Photograph depicts a car, two bulldozers and some steel drums at the side of a mining access road in the winter.
Unidentified mining excavation equipment (might be a type of drill) located in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a open mining site at the base of a mountain, forested landscape visible in background and unidentified mining equipment visible in the midground.
Photograph depicts a open mining site at the base of a mountain, forested landscape visible in background and unidentified mining equipment visible in the midground.
Photograph depicts a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Sec. #4"
Photograph depicts two men (O'Brine on left) standing in front of a log building. Handwritten note on verso reads: "Consulting engineer for Crocker 1st National Bank, San Franscisco. Examining (?) Fleuving & Downey Leases with object of taking in dredge."
Photograph depicts a two horse driven wagon being pulled off a snowy bank onto a gravel road amidst a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts three(?) men standing in front of a pile driver at work along a dirt path.
Photograph depicts a wooden pile trestle that leads through a wooded landscape. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile tressle upper end. Sec.#1. Bents 12" centers - 3 only 12" piled driven to refusal; caps 10" x 12" "
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective of Germansen Placers including the pipeline.
Photograph depicts a section of cleared bedrock along a steep ditch.
Photograph depicts a shovel at work widening a ditch cut through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a shove digging a large ditch into a hillside beside a forested landscape.
Large mechanized shovel working on a logged hillside. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Shovel on sec. #3 working up grade towards sec. #2"
Photograph depicts a large cut ditch in the forested landscape. Shovel visible in distance. Annotation on recto states: "Portoin(?) of sec. #1"
Photograph depicts a sideview of a shovel digging a ditch through a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "One of deepest cuts, 1 yd. P & H, shovel 36 ton, floor of ditch is 15 feet length, 10 miles". Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Germansen shovel in deep cut on ditch construction 1939".
Photograph depicts an open air work or woodshop covered with snow, surrounded by lumber and steel drums.
Wooden piles driven into a river bed, pile driver visible in background. Handwritten annotation on recto reads: "South fork intake before gate built, pile driven to refusal".
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A stack of logs".
Photograph depicts three piles of stacked lumber located in a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Lumber for flumes. Co. has its own sawmill"
Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work.