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Title: The Honest Miner’s Song
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 contains thirteen vignettes each depicting different aspects of a miner's life. These include vignettes of a miner's daily chores, how miners entertain themselves, and the joys and pains of mining life. The text in the center of the image is of two songs, one expressing a miner's happiness and optimism before setting out to California, and the other expressing a miner's sadness and pessimism now that he has experienced the harsh realities of gold mining. "Published by Geo. H. Baker."--text, above image. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 27 x 21 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Identifier: 48052:102
14082
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23497
Language: English
Subject: California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining--California
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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