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Title: Oh boys, I've struck it heavy
Creator: Seamon, Victor (active ca. 1853), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
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: Three miners along stream bank: one seated at left watches as another dances excitedly over pan of gold held up by the third kneeling on bank; square hole and pick in background; cabin on distant hilltop.
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten (LR, modern hand?): 1853, Victor Seamon. Handwritten poem (on verso) in French entitled: Priere d'un naufrage. See also 1963.002:0223--A and 1963.002:0225 - 1963.002:0226--A (all are from the same notebook now mounted as group). Inscriptions in English and French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor, pen, and pencil 16.6 x 19.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4w1010v0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0224--A
Subject: Clothing & dress
Gold rushes
Miners

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