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Title: [Discovery of rich gold mines in Sacramento, California]
Creator: Dembour et Gangel, French, undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1848]
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: Gold mining scene with men gold panning, digging with picks, and transporting ore along narrow stream (includes Afro American man); group of men at left line up to weigh gold. Two buildings (mill?) and sailing ships in distance.
Printed title, text and lyrics about gold rush (UC, on verso): Découverte des riches mines d'or de Sacramento en Californie... Handwritten (UC): California. Date 1848 printed in body of text on verso. Printed (LC, on verso): Fabriqué d'Images de Dembour et Gangel, à Metz. et à Paris, rue Serpente, 7. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: woodcut, hand colored 19.9 x 28.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1g500751
BANC PIC 1963.002:0265--A
Subject: California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Sacramento (Calif.)

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