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Title: [Gold washing in Mariposa County, California]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 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: Gold mining by creek in forest setting. Older man working with sluice at right; young man with pan at bank in foreground; man driving mule around ore crusher (arrastra) at left.
Handwritten title (LC): [...] Creek, Mariposa County, 1850. Possibly later recreation of 1850 scene.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: etching 22.7 x 34.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4m3nb6fk
BANC PIC 1963.002:0268--A
Subject: California, Northern
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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