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Title
Life among the miners
Creator
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued
[185-]
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
Four images: slap jacks; rush for new diggings; tree'd; and nooning; showing miners in camp, on road, and being chased up tree by bear.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LC): Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Printed captions. Handwritten letter on recto and verso dated 185[?].
Type
image
Format
Print on tinted paper: lithograph 21.2 x 27.2 cm., image on sheet 42.2 x 27.2 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf296nb3t7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0070--B
Subject
Animals
Bears
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners

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