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Title: [Gambling scene]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 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
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Gold Rush gambling scene; bearded gambler, wearing top hat, deals cards at table surrounded by diverse crowd of men including Chinese, Mexican, and Spaniard types, miners and others. Drunken man with gun dangling from left hand leans against wall at right; bar at rear.
Supplied title. Blind stamp (UR). Note from Inventory Sheets: This was reproduced as Book Club of California Keepsake: Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush, No. 7; see also 1963.002:0294. Related item, former Rosecrans Collection. The group of drawings 1963.002:0283 - 1963.002:0301 appear to be related. Some share stylistic, physical, and topical characteristics and may have came from the same source. For more information see Inventory Sheets.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on tinted paper: pen and ink 20.9 x 26.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2x0nb4rm
BANC PIC 1963.002:0293--B
Subject: Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Manners & customs

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