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Title
[All the servants have gone to the mines, the governor is reduced to serving himself (plate)]
Creator
Lanz (active ca. 1850), French?, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1850]
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
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Description
Men in military uniform wearing apron stands cooking on stove in kitchen.
Printed title (LC): Tous ses domestiques étant partis aux mines. Le gouverneur est réduit à se servir lui même. Printed (LC, above title): No. 5. Manufacturer's stamp (on verso): Creil et Montereau/Porcel Opaque. L.M. & Cie. Medailles d'or 1834, 39, 44, et 49. Inscriptions in French.
Type
image
Format
Print on porcelain plate: engraving 21.2 x 21.2 cm., diameter
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1j49p01k
BANC PIC 1963.002:1870--OBJ
Subject
Gold rushes
Interiors
Manners & customs
Military personnel

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