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Title
[A gold hunter on his way to California via St. Louis]
Creator
Behrens, F. A. (active ca. 1849), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1849]
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
Gold hunter carrying suitcase and loaded down with knives, tools, cookware, and food items making his way to California; signpost displays distances to California and St. Louis.
Supplied title. Printed (LC): Ein Auswanderer nach Californien; (LR): Verlag v. F.A. Behrens. See also 1963.002:0440--B and 1963.002:1485--B. Inscriptions in German.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 48 x 31.3 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6d5nb736
BANC PIC 1963.002:0441--B
Subject
Clothing & dress
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Overland journeys to the Pacific

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