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Title: Coloma [El Dorado County, California]
Creator: Hunter & Co.'s Express (active ca. 1848), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1848]
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: Distant view of town with houses and buildings scattered at foothills; rolling hills in background. Location where gold was discovered by John Marshall in 1848.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Published by Hunter & Co.'s Express; (LR): Sutter's Mill. Handwritten (LR): El Dorado County, California/in making a dam for which the gold in California was discovered/in 1848, January. Blind stamp (UC): [Goodwin?] Hartford.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 19.5 x 31.5 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5m3nb6kz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0016--B
Subject: California, Northern
Gold rushes
Settlements

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