Old vintage real photo stereoview stereo view photograph of HYDRAULIC MINING at Gold Run, Placer County, California. This is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains East of the Sacramento Valley. Not dated but circa 1875. Flat mount with rounded corners. Front of mount is orange and back side is pink. Backside of the mount is blank.
On the front of the mount is printed: 750 – Hydraulic Gold Mining at Gold Run, California. On the front of the mount is also printed: American Scenery, Photographed By C. L. Pond, Buffalo, N. Y..
Condition: Slight edge wear, front lightly dusty, backside moderately soiled, Good tone and contrast.
Photographer CHARLES L. POND, of Buffalo, New York, was an active photographer from 1861 to 1881 and a stereograph publisher from 1869 to 1878. Pond is exceptional among stereographers in appearing in many of his own stereographs, and may be the figure inspecting the big trees in the “Mammoth Trees of Calaveras Co., California” series.
GOLD RUN was a former settlement in Placer County, California. A post office was established titled “Mountain Springs”, after the Mountain Springs Hotel, in 1854, a few miles southwest of Dutch Flat. The town was founded by O. W. Hollenbeck, and was known for its hydraulic mines. The post office moved one mile north and the name was changed to Gold Run in 1863. $6,125,000 in gold was transferred out of the town between 1865-1878 due to the hydraulic mining. Mining operations ceased in 1882, after a court ruling made hydraulic operations unprofitable. Today the former settlement is listed as California Historical Landmark #405.
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