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Title
Things as they are
Creator
Perkins, artist Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher Elton, Robert H. (active ca. 1848-ca. 1850), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued
[not before 1849]
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
Satirical image of Gold Rush in California showing armed men digging, fighting foreigners, etc; caricature of President James K. Polk as bird carrying pick and bag of money flies with other bird-men (his cabinet) towards California. Dialog balloons.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by Serrell & Perkins 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]; (LR, within image): Perkins. Date 1849 within image.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph 34 x 46.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1n39p0kh
BANC PIC 1963.002:0446--B
Subject
Equipment
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Manners & customs
Mining

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