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Title: The place we hear about
Creator: Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [1850?]
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: Chaotic scene of miners digging, fighting, drinking, getting sick, etc. Man in center shoots another man in face who holds large bag of gold. Group identified as President Polk and his cabinet come down from building on hill to "reap rewards" of California. Dialog balloons.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by Serrell & Perkins 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]. Handwritten (LC, within image): 50 Par[is]. Companion piece to 1963.002:0444--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 34.3 x 46 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf467nb6fz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0445--B
Subject: Criminals
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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