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Title: [Gold mines of California]
Creator: Holdredge, Ransom Gillett (1836-1899), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [185-?]
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: Distressed Derville flees burning city (San Francisco 1851?); Classical-style buildings line street filled with fleeing crowds (women, men and children) as flames engulf buildings in distance.
Printed title (UC): Les Mines d'Or de la Californie. Printed (LR): Paris, Lith. Hollier, r. Galande 37. Printed text (LC) describes fictional? character Derville and his adventures in California. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 25.3 x 33.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5p3010pd
BANC PIC 1963.002:0251--B
Subject: California, Northern
Fires
Gold rushes
San Francisco (Calif.)

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