1923 Sierra Nevada Gold Belt Map – Terry Cloth Field Issue – Calif Mining Bureau
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| Management number | 36760009 | Release Date | 2026/01/05 | List Price | $297.00 | Model Number | 36760009 | ||
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Offered here is an extraordinarily scarce survivor of early California mining history — an original 1923 field-issue topographic map of the Sierra Nevada Gold Belt Showing the Distribution of the Auriferous Gravels, issued by the California State Mining Bureau under State Mineralogist Lloyd L. Root and compiled by mining engineer Charles Scott Haley, famed for Bulletin No. 92.
Unlike the paper wall-maps occasionally encountered, this example is the Terry cloth / canvas-backed field version — produced in very limited quantities for active use by mining surveyors working in the Sierra foothills. Nearly all working maps of this type were destroyed through field use, and surviving examples are exceptionally rare. This piece represents not only a cartographic artifact but a tangible relic of California’s geological, economic, and Gold-Rush legacy.
The map spans the historic gold region including El Dorado, Plumas, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Stanislaus, Merced, Shasta, Sacramento, and more — iden
| Category | Vintage & collectibles > Paper ephemera > Map |
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| Condition | Good |
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