Image: Bartlett Quicksilver Furnaces
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Description: Pencil, sepia and beige wash drawing on beige paper shows view of mercury [quicksilver] mines at New Almaden. The milling complex, known as Hacienda de Beneficio (Hacienda Reduction Works), is shown along a narrow valley near Alamitos Creek. The raw ore is brought in on packs carried by a mule train and teams of oxen carry wagons full of mercury uphill.
Title: Bartlett Quicksilver Furnaces
Credit: John Russell Bartlett Collection at the John Carter Brown Library [1]
Author: John Russell Bartlett
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