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Title: [Mining camp in Coloma, California]
Creator: Taber, W. (active ca. 1891), artist Audubon, John Woodhouse (1812-1862), American, artist (based on original by)
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1850]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Mining camp with several tents and two wooden houses surrounded by high mountains in distance. This site was apparently located half mile above Coloma (where Sutter's Mill was located) in northwest canyon of American Fork of Sacramento River.
Supplied title. Signature (LR): Taber. Handwritten on mount (modern) (LL): The discovery of gold mining camp; (LR): N[orth] W[est] Canyon, American fork of Sacramento River/1/2 mile above Coloma, May 4. 1850/ from a drawing by [M.R.?] Audobon (James Woodhouse?). Note from Inventory Sheets: Art Department/The Century Co., Older coded catalogue or price numbers on mat and on both sides of drawing's mount; various historical notes (the above apparently transcribed from previous mount). Possibly used for illustration or reproduction.
Type: image
Format: Painting on tinted paper: ink, wash, and gouache 16.8 x 30.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2j49p1r7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0303--B
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Dwellings
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Mining

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