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Sutter County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Photograph album of agriculture and irrigation in the Sunset Colonies, Marysville, Gridley, Butte County, and Sutter County, California

 Collection — Box 01
Identifier: PC-PA-070
Content Description Photograph album containing 123 black and white photographic prints depicting agriculture and irrigation in the Sunset Colonies, Marysville, Gridley, Butte County, and Sutter County, California circa 1907-1908. The photographs included in the album show completed irrigation projects of the Butte County Canal Company, and also, images of weirs, flumes, ditches, and dams. Also contains photographs showing dairying, farming, and agricultural processing, such as fruit drying and canning,...
Dates: circa 1907-1908

Photographs of the effects of hydraulic mining in Nevada, Sutter, and Yuba counties

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: PC-RM -Todd
Abstract Consists of seventeen photographs documenting the destructive effects of hydraulic mining. Includes images of washed-over roads, ruined orchards, broken dams, riverbank gravel deposits, and working hydraulic hoses. Photos were taken in Nevada, Sutter, and Yuba counties and feature the Yuba and Feather Rivers. Two other photographs depict waterfront and shipping scenes in unidentified location, probably San Francisco. One photograph shows a dredge docked near an unidentified waterfront. J.A....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1882 - 1883