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Title: [Map of Coloma at the time that gold was discovered]
Creator: Marshall, James Wilson, 1810-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Ca0925
MAP-VAULT: CALIFORNIA: EL DORADO CO.: [1850].
Map and two drawings of mill.
Sheet 1 (ca925). [Coloma map]. Pencil drawing showing the American River, surrounding streams and natural features. Map is labeled with description of the area -- sheet 2 (ca926). "Situation of all hands on the mill at the time I brought the gold and showed it." Pencil drawing of mill structure and mill hands -- sheet 2 (verso) (ca927). "The mill as finished at the time of the gold discovery Jany 19th 1848." Pencil drawing of mill structure, labeled with description and dimensions.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 3 drawings : colored pencil on paper ; 10 x 15 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001387959CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1263
Subject: Mills--California--Coloma
Gold mining--California--Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)--Photographs
Drawings
Maps
Place: California
Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)

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