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Title: Celestial empire in California: Miners/Gamblers
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and 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: Upper image: mining camp scene with Chinese men eating, shaving and braiding hair, and working with picks, etc. Lower image: interior of gambling house with several tables surrounded by Chinese men; games in progress.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LL): Lith. & published by Britton & Rey; (LR): Corn[e]r Mont[gomer]y & Cal[iforni]a St[reet]s, San Francisco. Printed captions.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 27.2 x 21.4 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf358008gt
BANC PIC 1963.002:0011--A
Subject: Camping
Chinese
Gold rushes
Manners & customs
Miners
Mining

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