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Title
The Volcano diggings [California]
Creator
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), American, artist Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer Putnam, Geo. P. (active ca. 1850), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 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
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Description
Encampment with simple wooden house at left and tents and log cabins in nearby; small figures, one holding picks(?); tall rock to left, hills in background.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Bayard Taylor; (LC, below title): New York, Geo[rge] P. Putnam; (LR): Lith. of Sarony & Major.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 12.4 x 19 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4d5nb5zj
BANC PIC 1963.002:0258:03--A
Subject
California, Northern
Camping
Dwellings
Frontier & pioneer life
Mining

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