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Title: [Placer mining at Foster's Bar, California]
Creator: Narjot, Ernest (1826-1898), French, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 185[1?]
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: Gold mining operation along bank of river; miners at work with sluices and two wooden hydraulic waterwheels. Camp with makeshift huts and tents on hillside.
Supplied title. Signature and date (LL): E. Narjot, 185[1?]. Label (on verso): Prepared Millboard/Winsor & Newton.... Handwritten annotations (on verso).
Type: image
Format: Painting on millboard: oil 30.2 x 35.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8m3nb865
BANC PIC 1963.002:1353--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Camping
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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