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Title
Past & Present of California
Creator
Britton & Rey, printer
Britton & Rey, publisher
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
The two large circles at the center of this image enclose a side-wheeler, loaded with passengers, docking (on the left), and an ocean-going sailing ship being loaded from a row boat (on the right). At the top center of the image is an elephant. There are smaller scene around the two encircled illustrations depicting miners, mining processes, a public school, a stagecoach, another side-wheeler, and a man plowing with two oxen. "Lith. & Pub. by Britton & Rey S. Francisco."--text, below image. The number 11 is in the upper right corner, indicating that this image may be part of a series. Paper color: buff.
Type
image
Format
High resolution
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; 20.7 x 26.7 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
Identifier
48052:087
48738
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23478
Language
English
Subject
California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Lithographs. (aat)
Source
California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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