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Title: Gold mining in California
Creator: Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1871
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: Mining operation with miners working sluice and panning diverted stream in foreground (cradle/rocker at right); hydraulic mining operations in middleground; cabins and mountains in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Published by Currier & Ives; (LC, above title): Entered... 1871 by Currier & Ives... Washington; (LR): 125 Nassau St[reet] New York.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 25.5 x 35.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4k4009td
BANC PIC 1963.002:0252--B
Subject: California, Northern
Dwellings
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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