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Title: Things as they are
Creator: Perkins, artist Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher Elton, Robert H. (active ca. 1848-ca. 1850), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1849]
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: Satirical image of Gold Rush in California showing armed men digging, fighting foreigners, etc. Caricature of President James K. Polk as bird carrying pick and bag of money flies with other bird-men (his cabinet) towards California. Dialog balloons.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Perkins; (LR): Serrell & Perkins Lith. & pub., 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]; (LR): R.H. Elton, 90 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]. Date 1849 within image.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 35.7 x 53.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2z09p12h
BANC PIC 1963.002:0446 (variant)--C
Subject: Arms & armaments
Equipment
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Manners & customs
Mining

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