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Title: The Volcano golddiggings, California
Creator: [Unknown] Herrmann, J. Meyer (active ca. 1854), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Encampment with simple wooden house at left, and tents in distance and at right; two men digging with picks, one warming by fire. Tall rock in middleground, hills in distance, scene flanked by pine trees and vegetation.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn from nature; (LR): For the proprietor Herrmann J. Meyer; (LL): Published for Herrmann J. Meyer, 164 William Str[eet], New York; (LR): Copyright secured to act of Congress.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 20.4 x 24.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf787010sz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0248--A
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Mining

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