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Title
Way-side scenes in California
Creator
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist, artist
Contributor
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist, artist
Anthony & Baker (active 1850s), engraver, engraver
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[not before 1854]
Publication Information
TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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Description
Includes four images showing travelers on road (Indians, miners, Chinese, Mexicans, and settlers); Chinese battle between ethnic factions fought at "Five Cent Gulch" in Weaverville; Indians smoking out bees of locusts; and Indian women crushing acorns(?).
Type
image
Format
26.5 x 20.8 cm.
Form/Genre
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0p3000v0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0179--A
Subject
California, Northern
Chinese
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Indians of North America
Miners
Westward movement
Women

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