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Title
A road scene in California
Creator
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist
Artist
Wide West Office (active ca. 1852-ca. 1856), publisher
Publisher
Anthony & Baker (active 1850s), engraver
Engraver
Date Created and/or Issued
1856
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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Description
Related Item: Chinese and Westward Expansion; The Bancroft Library; Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Published at the Wide West office, San Francisco; (LL, within image): Anthony & Baker, sc.; (LR, within image): C. Nahl, del. Handwritten letter dated 1856 on recto. For variant see 1963.002:0117--B.
Content/DescriptionIncludes image of road with group of Indian men, women, and children; Chinese laborers; prospectors/miners; and pioneers with covered wagon.
Type
image
Format
Engravings.
Pictorial lettersheets.
Extent
12 x 20.6 cm., image on sheet 26.8 x 41.2 cm.
Print on paper: engraving
Identifier
BANC PIC 1963.002:0118--B
ark:/13030/hb509nb0dj
cic_cubanc_47_1_00051797
Subject
Chinese
Miners
Settlers
Indians of North America
Westward movement
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets

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