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Title: Capt. Sutter's account of the first discovery of the Gold
Contributor: Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
Britton & Rey
Date Created and/or Issued: 1854
Publication Information: San Francisco, Cal. : Britton & Rey
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: 2002-0026.
Baird,
Text of Capt. Sutter's account (left); Marshall's portrait in profile (right) above a view of Coloma with Sutter's Mill. Caption at right of Marshall's portrait: Portait [sic] of Mr. Marshal [sic], taken from nature at the time when he made the discovery of gold in California. Caption to the right of Sutter's Mill: View of Sutter's Mill or place where the first gold has been discovered.
Negative, no. 1,424 (4 X 5 in.) b/w, color transparency; negative, no. 1,424a (4 x 5 in.) b/w portrait of Marshall; negative, no. 1,424b b/w Sutter's Mill.
Al Goddard;
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print on 10 3/4 x 8 3//8 in. blue wove sheet : lithograph ; 10 x 7 5/8 in. image.
Identifier: (C)001383455CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-6723
Language: English
Subject: Marshall, James Wilson,, 1810-1885--Pictorial works
Gold mining--California--Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Pictorial lettersheets
Prints
Lithographs
Place: California
Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)

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