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Title
View of Grass Valley [Nevada County, California]
Creator
Ogilby, Robert E. (Ogibly) (active ca. 1852-ca. 1868), artist Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued
[1852?]
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
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Description
City in Sierra Nevada foothills; gated pastures in foreground, houses and buildings in middleground; figures throughout scene including hunter and miner, Indians with baskets, and well-dressed man and woman.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): R.E. Ogilby, del.; (LR): Lith. of Sarony & Major, New York; (LC, below title): Drawn expressly for and respectfuly dedicated to General Winchester by his obligated and humble servant the artist. A llithography of Grass Valley, 1852, is kept by Society of California Pioneers (Hughes).
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 53 x 68.8 cm., visible image, dome top
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3n39p1m4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0849--FR
Subject
California, Northern
Settlements

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