Showing 135 results

Photograph depicts wooden roadways criss-crossing a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts wooden roadways criss-crossing a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a wooden roadway traversing a forested mountainside.

Photograph depicts a wide ditchline cut into a rocky environment with a line of trees located in the background.

Photograph depicts a wide gravel pathway that has been cleared through a wooded landscape.

Photograph depicts a large water-filled ditchline in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a large water-filled ditchline in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a large water filled ditchline with a steamshovel and forested landscape in the background.

Photograph depicts ditch constructed on the hill of a forested environment. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "View showing part [of] new ditch - fully logged and braced, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a creek running through a heavily forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "View down creek from lower part of Cos' property. Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a creek running through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph states: "View up Germansen Creek"

Photograph depicts a loaded dogsled being pulled by four sled dogs against a winter forest backdrop.

Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on the side of a rocky cut in a wooded landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "compressor on rock cut sec. #4"

Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on a wooden flume located in a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph states: "flume".

Photograph depicts two unidentified men standing beside a log pile on the edge of a river that flows alongside a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Logs skidded ready to float down to mill, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a wooden trestle constructed along a steep cliff through a wooded environment. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Trestle work through upper canyon 1/2 mile below intake, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a wooden trestle designed for carrying water flumes. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Trestle work for carrying water flume - Germansen Placer Ltd"

Photograph depicts a wood trestle constructed in a cleared forest area. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Trestle nearing completion across valley of south fork of Germansen Creek".

Photograph depicts a wooden trestle under construction along a hillside within a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Trestle work three (?) Upper Canyon 200 yards below intake, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts three unidentified men standing in an old ditch cut through a forested environment. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "View along old ditch - brushed out & deepened, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts three men standing on a rocky terrain along a creekbed in front of a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Taken to show carpest(?) stones seen on Creek. Shows old Five (?) workings of "Upper Toboggan" Claim situated on lower end of Cos' upper Creek leases. Dr. Mathews writing from Germansen Camp - 12/9/71. to Editor colonist mentions "Upper Toboggan Claim is actually paying $30 to $50 per day per wau(?)" - Old timers were able to work this low lying beach owing to shallow and rich gravels -- were stacked by hand. Snow water aided sluicing."

Photograph depicts a ditch and wooden flume located in a snow covered forest landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "The new ditch and flume at upper Faloggan (?)"

Photograph depicts a hillside and mining equipment covered in heavy snow.

Photograph depicts a tent and a large pile of metal piping set within a forested landscape in winter.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.

Photograph depicts the front end of a steamshovel located on a rocky terrain with a forested landscape in the background.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work.

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 snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A stack of logs".

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 an open air work or woodshop covered with snow, surrounded by lumber and steel drums.

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 a large cut ditch in the forested landscape. Shovel visible in distance. Annotation on recto states: "Portoin(?) of sec. #1"

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 shove digging a large ditch into a hillside beside a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a shovel at work widening a ditch cut through a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a section of cleared bedrock along a steep ditch.

Photograph depicts a landscape perspective of Germansen Placers including the pipeline.

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 three(?) men standing in front of a pile driver at work along a dirt path.

Photograph depicts a two horse driven wagon being pulled off a snowy bank onto a gravel road amidst a forested landscape.

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 ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Sec. #4"

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.

Unidentified mining excavation equipment (might be a type of drill) located in front of a forested landscape.