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Title: The independent gold hunter on his way to California: I neither borrow nor lend
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1849 and 1852]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Prospector loaded down with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food items making his way to California; signpost displaying distances to California and St. Louis.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LR): 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[er] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): 190. Date based on lithographer/publisher active dates at above location. See also 1963.002:0440--B and 1963.002:0441--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 43.3 x 34.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1b69p08w
BANC PIC 1963.002:1485--B
Subject: Clothing & dress
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Overland journeys to the Pacific

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