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Title: Miners weighing their gold/The dream of a prospecting miner
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and 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: Upper image shows three miners with scale, pans, bread, rifle, bottles, and candle sitting at large table. Lower image depicts sleeping man in nature by fire: rifle, pistol, dagger and other objects near by; vignettes represent his dreams related to gold mining.
Printed title (upper image): Miners weighing their gold; (lower image): The dream of a propecting miner. Printed (LC): Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California st[reet]s, S[an] Francisco. Blind stamp (LL): Rolland Freres, Bordeaux. See also 1963.002:0308--A.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: pen lithograph 26.5 x 21.4 cm., image on sheet 26.5 x 42.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7c60115s
BANC PIC 1963.002:0098--B
Subject: Arms & armaments
Equipment
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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