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Title: A charming girl of New York in the Gold Region
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1849]
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: Woman with parasol reclines holding bag of gold; man with mining tools dig hole in rock nearby; both wear weapons including rifle, knife, handgun, and dagger.
Printed title (UC). Printed dialog captions below image. Handwritten (LL): Lola [Montez?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 32.9 x 43.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf896nb96p
BANC PIC 1963.002:0453--B
Subject: Arms & armaments
Clothing & dress
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Women

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