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Title: Miners at Work With Long Toms
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
1851
1852
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image at the top is of miners shoveling earth and gravel into long toms with houses and trees in the background. Lower left images are of a miner with a shovel, axe, and pan, and a Native American chief sitting down. "Copied from a Daguerreotyp [sic] sketch, by Quirot Lithographers."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 27.3 x 22 cm (10 3/4 x 8 15/16 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:034
2349
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23420
Language: English
Subject: California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining--California--History--19th century
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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