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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
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
Notes/Inscriptions:Printed title (MC). Printed (UC): Miner's Life Illustrated; (C): The honest miner's songs; (Left edge): Entered... Barber and Baker... California, Published by Barber and Baker, corner of Third and J Street, Sacramento. Each image captioned. This copy has variant cursive loop border, with imprint and copyright statement at left edge, not lower center. Single sheet, possibly cut down from double sheet. Five lines of ms. text on verso. For related print see 1963.002:0069. For variants see 1963.002:0091--B and 1963.002:0092--B.
Not received with the Honeyman Collection. Purchased by Bancroft Library in 1947 (from Howell). Added to Honeyman as variant, circa 1980. Formerly marked L/S 40 v.2.
Thirteen images showing mining camps, miners at work in mines and at daily chores, social activities, interiors of living quarters, etc.
Type
image
Format
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets
Extent
28 x 22.5 cm., sheet
Print on tinted paper: engraving
Identifier
BANC PIC 1963.002:0092--A
ark:/13030/tf3r29p1wx
honeyman_cubanc_37_1_00030257
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Manners & customs
Dwellings
Interiors
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets

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