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Description
1999-0323 PRINTS: LETTERSHEETS: SCENES IN A MINERS LIFE Six vignettes (left to right, down): Night in the log cabin; Camping out; Going to work. Hole gives out; New diggings struck; Next day. Night in the log cabin (man left of fireplace, fiddling; right, two men play cards at a table as man in bunk looks on); Camping out (three men around campfire; one seated left holds large kettle; center, man standing pouring wine, third man crouches, right). Going to work (man, center, balances gold pan on left index finger, holds pick in right hand; man, left, walking along with bucket and shovel, smoking; right, middle distance, man walking up a hill); Hole gives out (three men around deep hole: center, man reclining grumpily above hole; standing man, left, holds empty gold pan and scratches his head sadly; right, equally sad man, holding a pick in one hand, his head with the other, his elbow on his raised knee on a tree stump). New diggings struck (men working new claims with picks, toms, etc.; tents at left); Next day (man surveys empty scene of new diggings, tents are gone, the holes abandoned). Baird,
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print on gray wove : lithograph ; 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001378726CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-1969
Subject
Gold miners--California Gold mining--California Cabins--California California--Pictorial works Pictorial lettersheets Prints Lithographs
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