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Title: River Mining
Creator: Anthony & Baker, printer
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 of miners within a wooden enclosure digging a trench, shoveling gravel into a sluice box, and lifting a large bolder with a pulley. The river and a cabin on a hill are in the background. "Anthony & Baker SC. Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 12 x 18.5 cm (4 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.) image on 27 x 18.5 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.) sheet.
Identifier: 48052:026
1641
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23412
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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