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Title: [Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California]
Creator: Sloan, Blanding (active ca. 1931), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: Stone wall with "Sutter Mill" imbedded in it stands in shallow water of the American River. Miner with gold pan in his hand and pick over his shoulder in foreground surrounded by lush vegetation.
Handwritten title (LL). Signature (LR): Blanding Stone. Printed (LL, within image): Blanding Sloan, [19]31. Printed label (LC): Sutter Mill, Coloma, California, The spot where gold was discovered in California... Here dawned the first day of a golden epoch, Philip Johnston.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: etching 31.7 x 40.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7h4nb7fb
BANC PIC 1963.002:0922--B
Subject: California, Northern
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Sacramento (Calif.)

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