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Title
The gold seeker
Creator
Kelloggs & Comstock (1849-1852), American, publisher Needham, D. (active ca. 1850), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1849 and 1852]]
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
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Description
Fierce looking man (defending claim?) in plumed hat, with pistols in both hands, pouch and knives tucked in his belt; small figures of miners at work in distance.
Printed title (LC) and number: 195. Printed (LL): Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork] & 136 Main St[reet], Hartford Conn.; (LR): D. Needham, 12 Exchange St[reet], Buffalo.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 37.3 x 28 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5q2nb6w8
BANC PIC 1963.002:1526--B
Subject
Arms & armaments
Clothing & dress
Criminals
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners

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