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Title: Miner prospecting
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878
Contributor: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Wenderoth, August
Date Created and/or Issued: 1997
Publication Information: 1997
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1997-0031
PHOTO: MINES AND MINING: GOLD: MINING CAMPS AND MINERS: "MINER PROSPECTING"
Miner riding a white horse, rifle in hand, pistol at his side, ax and pick behind his saddle; pack horse following with equipment; photograph of original print, [1852]
Negative, no. 25,021 (4 x 5 in.) and lithograph in CSL's Print collection, accession number 1997-0032.
Type: image
Format: Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 7 x 5 in.
Identifier: (C)001376833CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0044
Subject: Gold miners--California
Prospecting--California
Prospecting equipment & supplies
Photographic prints
Lithographs--Reproductions
Place: California

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