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Title
Ross's Bar, California
Date Created and/or Issued
1854
Publication Information
Boston : F. Gleason
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2008-2776
PRINTS-F-SIZE: MINES & MINING: GOLD: YUBA COUNTY
Shows what is probably Rose's Bar located on south bank of Yuba River. Foreground shows house, men sitting and standing outside, river is behind with mining camp visible to right, hills and trees form background.
Rose's Bar probably named after John Rose who opened a trading post in 1840's. By 1850's, camp had three stores, three boarding houses and three saloons.
Originally in: Gleason's pictorial, Scenes in California, vol. VI, no. 12 (whole no. 142), p. 184-185, March 25, 1854.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph ; 6 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001391968CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5305
Subject
Gold mining--California--Yuba County
Mining camps--California--Yuba County
Rivers--California--Yuba County
Yuba County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Yuba River (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Place
California
Yuba County
Yuba County (Calif.)
Yuba River (Calif.)

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