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Title: View of James Town, south mines [California]
Creator: Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer Cooke & Le Count (active ca. 1852), publisher
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: Small mining town situated along creek; numerous miners at work in foreground and in center; dirt mounds from mining activity along stream.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Published & sold by Cooke & Lecount, Montgomery St[reet], S[an] F[rancisco]; (LR): Lith. by Justh & Quirot Jackson St[reet], S[an] F[rancisco]. Handwritten in German (on verso).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 22.3 x 28.7 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2g5007w6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0167--A
Subject: California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Settlements

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