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The gold district, California: mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River

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Title: The gold district, California: mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Diverse crowd of men (including Indians and Afro-Americans) and one elder woman at work along busy river bank. Miners use various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles and wear costumes reflecting their backgrounds. Mining camp and rolling hills in distance.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LR): For sale at 92 Fulton St[reet]. For variant see 1963.002:0266--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 41.9 x 56.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1x0nb3ww
BANC PIC 1963.002:0471--C
Subject: California, Northern
Gold rushes
Indians of North America
Miners
Mining
Rivers

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