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Title: [After discovering a good mine, one often encounters bad fellows (plate)]
Creator: Lanz (active ca. 1850), French?, artist (attributed to)
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
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Description: French miner carrying tools and bags of gold encounters two rough looking men carrying big sticks in forest.
Printed title (LC): Après avoir découvert une bonne mine, on en rencontre parfois d'assez mauvaises. Printed (LC, above title): No. 6. Manufacturer's stamp (on verso): Creil et Montereau/Porcel Opaque. L.M. & Cie. Medailles d'or 1834, 39, 44, et 49. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on porcelain plate: engraving 21.2 x 21.2 cm., diameter
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4m3nb6j4
BANC PIC 1963.002:1872--OBJ
Subject: Criminals
Gold rushes
Miners

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