Image / View near Auburn, Placer Co[unty], Cal[iforni]a

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Title: View near Auburn, Placer Co[unty], Cal[iforni]a
Creator: Gibson, G. [George?] (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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: Landscape of hillside with rocks and trees; Sacramento Valley and coastal range in distance.
Handwritten title (LC): View near Auburn, Placer Co[unty], Cal[ifornia]: Valley of the Sacramento and coast range in the distance, Aug[us]t, 1851. Handwritten (on verso): Here Miss Helen [his daughter?], is a view taken on the spot. Will it serve for a return for your pretty little sketch?, and has mother yet thanked you in my name for it. If not, why then receive them now from, yours very affectly G. Gibson
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 8.7 x 15 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf229007kx
BANC PIC 1963.002:0687--A
Subject: California, Northern

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