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Title: The independent gold-hunter on his way to California. I neither borrow nor lend
Contributor: Kelloggs & Comstock
Ensigns & Thayer
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
Publication Information: Hartford, Conn. ; New York, N.Y. : Kelloggs & Comstock, Ensign & Thayer
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 1998-0014.
Man in knee-length coat and boots with pan on his head, walking, carrying suitcase, pots and pans, teapot, shovel, pick-axe, sausages, and fish; sign behind him: "To St. Louis - 350 miles" and "To California - 1700 miles"; [ca. 1850]
Back side of print appears to be a title page: "Kelloggs & Comstocks' colored prints, a splendid assortment, superior to any in market, Ensigns & Thayers' Maps and charts, a variety unequaled."
Negative, no. 25,089 (4 x 5 in. b/w and color transparency)
Type: image
Format: Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print on 13 3/4 x 9 in. paper : lithograph, color ; 12 1/2 x 8 in. image
Identifier: (C)001376903CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0114
Language: English
Subject: Gold miners
Prospecting equipment & supplies
Portraits
Prints
Lithographs
Cartoons (Commentary)

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