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World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.) Search this
Physical description:
8 x 10;
Type:
Glass negatives
Place:
Pennsylvania
Barclay (Pa.)
Bradford County (Pa.)
Date:
1884
Notes:
Description from "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum," page 229.
Collected for curator of metallurgy and economic geology Frederic P. Dewey by assistant James Templeman Brown as part of Dewey's "Plan to illustrate the mineral resources of the United States, and their utilization, at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial of 1884-85, at New Orleans."
Summary:
A mule trip, a train of mine wagons, hauled by a mule as it appears from the mouth of the drift on the way to the chutes.
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