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Title: California miners working an arrastra
Creator: Boot, J. (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: Mining operation using two arrastra, both being turned by horses. Horses and carts bringing ore to arrastre; men check sluice boxes fed by arrastre as ore is ground. Arrastre were developed by Spanish Americans and used to grind gold-bearing quartz (J.D. Hart, A Companion to California).
Handwritten title (LC, attached). Signature and date (LR): J. Boot/1853.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor 24.2 x 34.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf52900901
BANC PIC 1963.002:0999--B
Subject: Animals
California, Northern
Equipment
Gold rushes
Horses
Miners
Mining
Vehicles

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