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Title: Commandments to California wives: commandments are given to make a happy home
Creator: Kuchel, C. C. (1820-ca. 1865), Swiss, artist Butler, W. C., engraver Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher Mercantile Job Print (active ca. 1855), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1855
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 vignettes include image of man at his writing desk being urged to write by woman; and view of home interior with mother, father, children, and servant. Marginal image of miner seated near his tent with woman and children beneath large tree.
Printed title (UC). Printed (UL, within image): C.C. Kuchel, del.; (LL): C.C. Kuchel; (UR and LR): W.C. Butler, S[an] F[rancisco]; (UR): Mercantile Job Print, 130 Sansome St[reet], S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC): Entered... 1855 by James M. Hutchings... California, Address J.F. Larrabee, San Francisco.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 27 x 21.2 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3z09p2v6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0018--A
Subject: Children
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Manners & customs
Miners
Women

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