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Title: Miner's life illustrated: the honest miner's songs
Creator: Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [1854]
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: Thirteen images showing mining camps, miners at work in mines and daily chores, social activities, interiors of living quarters, etc.
Printed title (MC). Printed (UC): Miner's Life Ilustrated; (LC): Entered... Barber and Baker... California, Published by Barber and Baker, corner of Third and J Street, Sacramento. Handwritten letter on recto and verso. Each image captioned. For variants see 1963.002:0069--B and 1963.002:0091--A.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: engraving 28 x 22.5 cm., image on sheet 28.2 x 44.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3r29p1wx
BANC PIC 1963.002:0092--B
Subject: Dwellings
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Interiors
Manners & customs
Miners
Mining

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