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Title: How the California mines are worked
Creator: Anthony & Baker (active 1850s), engraver Wide West Office (active ca. 1852-ca. 1856), 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: Mining operation including miners at work with gold pans, picks and shovels, sluices, cradles, elevated waterways, and in mine shafts.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street, San Francisco; (LR): Anthony & Baker, sc. Blind stamp (UL): [illegible].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: wood engraving 12.4 x 18.7 cm., image on sheet 26.6 x 20.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3779p1x5
BANC PIC 1963.002:0052 (variant 2)--A
Subject: Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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