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Illustration showing the process of hydraulic mining

Prospectors mining and panning for gold in Georgia

Illustration showing people panning for gold in Georgia

Illustration showing an advanced version of a stamp mill

This color lithograph shows a group of three women voting in New Jersey in 1880.

Illustration showing women participating in a traditional male environment (with negative perspective)

Illustration showing a woman nurse during World War I

Example of a wooden trestle used to transport water used in the gold mining process

Cover illustration showing women securing petitions for women's suffrage

Illustrations showing the new mining technologies of the early 1830s. The “hollow gum” (fig. 18) and inclined plane (fig. 19) allowed larger amounts of gravel to be washed while catching the particles of gold.