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Title: The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]
Creator: Cooper, George Victor (1810-1878), American, artist Cameron, John (active ca. 1852-ca. 1862), American, lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1852
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: Several log cabins and tents; covered wagons coming into settlement; two miners entering low roofed shack; numerous hole dug in foreground.
Printed title (LC): The Yankees house at Hang Town: so much lower than their heads, they had to crawl in and double up like jack knives. Printed (LL): G.V. Cooper, del; (LC, above title): On stone by J. Cameron.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 14 x 21.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf829012d7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0994:23--A
Subject: California, Northern
Dwellings
Environmental degradation
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Settlements

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