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Title: [Sacramento River, where the biggest known piece of gold was found, California]
Creator: Judels, A. (active ca. 1850), Dutch?, undetermined
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: Group of miners in camp along river gathered around man holding gold nugget; tens, cook fire, and equipment nearby with other camps along river in distance. The nugget was apparently the largest ever found and weighed approximately thirteen pounds.
Printed title (LC): Sacremento Rivier waar Het Grootste Bekende Stuk Goud Gevonden Is., Californie: Dit Stuk Goud woog circa dertien pond in zuiver gehalt. Printed (LC, above title): Te Amsterdam by Judels. Label attached to mount (on verso): John Howell/importer and publisher of books/434 Post Street, San Francisco 2/California/Sacramento River, where the/biggest known piece of gold/was found, California. This/piece of gold weighed approxi-/mately 13 pounds of pure finess./Translated from Dutch title. /California on Stone, p. 130/Excessively rare. Inscriptions in Dutch.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 16.6 x 23.4 cm., on mount 24.2 x 36.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf509nb5cf
BANC PIC 1963.002:0662--A
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)

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