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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 30, 2012
Caption: Winter in the Sierra Marker
Additional Description: [Photo Captions]
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Photos above: Winter view overlooking Eureka Mills, Mammoth Mill is on the right. Note the ski tracks and longboard skis in the snow outside the buildings. Circa 1870. Our cart trestle to the Mohawk Mill with the tram terminus building in background, aerial tram from the 76 mine... closed for the season. Fashionable attire for a social call on skis

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Photo above: Eureka Lake, with boarding house on right.

Photo on right:
Image of Johnsville, mines and mills, 1890 [Click image to enlarge]
Submitted: June 16, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p208139
File Size: 2.856 Megabytes

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