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Title: [Gold mines of California]
Creator: Hollier (active 1850s), French?, lithographer and publisher
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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Fight in foreground with main figure (Derville) brandishing sword over two dead bodies and man with gun on ground; miners work in river and on bank; grizzly bear in background with palm trees and mountains.
Printed title (UC): Les Mines d'Or de la Californie. Printed (LR): Paris, Lith. Hollier, r. Galande 37. Printed text (LC) describes fictional? character Derville and his adventures in California. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 25.3 x 33.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2s2008wn
BANC PIC 1963.002:0250--B
Subject: Clothing & dress
Criminals
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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