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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--
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
Notes/Inscriptions: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.
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.
Upper image shows three miners with scale, pans, bread, rifle, bottles, and candle sitting at large table. Lower image depicts sleeping man outdoors by fire, with rifle, pistol, dagger and other objects nearby; vignettes represent his dreams related to gold mining.
Type
image
Format
Lithographs
Pictorial lettersheets
Extent
26.5 x 21.4 cm., image on sheet 26.5 x 42.8 cm.
Print on tinted paper: pen lithograph
Identifier
BANC PIC 1963.002:0098--B
ark:/13030/tf7c60115s
honeyman_cubanc_37_1_00030265
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Equipment
Arms & armaments
Lithographs
Pictorial lettersheets

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