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Title: View of Montecristo [California]
Creator: Monmonier, William B., artist and publisher Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
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: Settlement situated on steep hillside; several openings to mineshafts in middleground with hills of rubble below; ranch in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): Scooper's Ranch in the foreground. Drawn & published by W[illia]m B. Monmonier, Aug[ust] 1st, 1856, price 50 cents.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 23.2 x 28.5 cm., image on sheet 46.4 x 28.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf496nb5f4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0169--B
Subject: California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Mining
Settlements

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