Image / A gold hunter on his way to California via St. Louis

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Title: A gold hunter on his way to California via St. Louis
Creator: Robinson, H. R. (active ca. 1849), publisher
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: Prospector carrying suitcase and loaded down with knives, mining tools, cookware, and food items making his way to California; signpost displays distances to California and St. Louis.
Printed title (LC). Printed (UC): I am sorry I did not follow... through the straits or by Chagres; (LC, below title): Published by H.R. Robinson, 31 Park Row, N[ew] York. See also 1963.002:0441--B and 1963.002:1485--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 43.2 x 33 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5bt
BANC PIC 1963.002:0440--B
Subject: Clothing & dress
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Overland journeys to the Pacific

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