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California gold diggers, mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River

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Title: California gold diggers, mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
Creator: Kelloggs & Comstock (1849-1852), American, publisher Ensign & Thayer (active ca. 1847-ca. 1851), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1849 and 1852]
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: Diverse crowd of men (including Indians and Afro-Americans) and one elder woman at work along busy river bank. Miners use various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles and wear costumes reflecting their backgrounds. Mining camp and rolling hills in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St[reet], New York & 136 Main St[reet], Hartford, Conn.; (LC, below title): 370; (LR): Ensign & Thayer, 12 Exchange St[reet], Buffalo. Date based on active dates of publisher. For variant see 1963.002:0471--C.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 24.4 x 34 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4w1010nw
BANC PIC 1963.002:0266--B
Subject: Afro-Americans
California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Indians of North America
Miners
Mining
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)

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