This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"

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This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in. (17.1 × 21.3 cm) Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.97
Not on view
DescriptionVintage print.
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso, upper left (stamp, black ink): “BILL OWENS / Box 687 / Livermore, CA 94550”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “USE WITH / JEROBOAM INC. CREDIT LINE / RETURN TO CATEGORY:”
Published References Illustrated in Bill Owens, Working: I Do It For The Money (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977), pl. 51.
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil)
Inscribed Verso, upper left corner (pencil): “V0671 / 3500”
Verso, left center (blue ink): [circled] “2”
Verso, center (black ink): “U-789”
Verso, lower left (red ink): “BO 132-2/80”
Verso, lower center (blue ink): “INDUSTRY”
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Viet Cong The Burning Issue: American F100 jet drops two canisters of napalm toward a Viet Cong machine gun position on the bank of the Rach Beng river, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, as a soldier of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, who had been landed by helicopter wades through the tall grass in foreground. The Rach Beng here forms the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia. The infantrymen were landed some 400 yards from the border and moved in to capture hundreds of tons of Viet Cong supplies
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.128
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895 (published February 15, 1897)
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.26
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Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.138
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Thomas Nast
Date: published January 15, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.307
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Arthur Rothstein
Date: March 1940 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.81
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Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.58
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.52
The ruins of 100 Gold Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.56
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Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza ma per ordine di N'ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi (Remains of the Aqueduct of Nero which were to be destroyed on account of their age but remained standing by order of Pope Clement XIV), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1775
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.19
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Leonard Freed
Date: 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.106
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Lou Stoumen
Date: c. 1952
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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