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Title: View of Agua Fria Valley [Mariposa County, California]
Creator: Riehn, C., artist Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Small settlement with three log cabins; tent to right; numerous dirt mounds from mining activity in foreground; miners with picks, sluice, and gold pan; wagon loaded with barrels pulled by six oxen.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): C. Riehn, del.; (LR): Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California st[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 21.3 x 26.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4w1010zj
BANC PIC 1963.002:0157--A
Subject: California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Equipment
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Settlements

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