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Title: Diploma awarded by the Mechanics Institute, San Francisco [California]
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), artist and lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1857-1858
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: Awarded to Harrison Eastman for the best wood engraving, September 1858. Includes allegorical image related to mechanical arts, science, industry and commerce with two male figures holding tools, and two female figures with infants.
Printed tiltle (MC). Printed (LR, within image): September 1858; (LC, within image): 1857. Lithographer based on comparison to 1963.002:0640--D.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 41.2 x 54.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8m3nb8cr
BANC PIC 1963.002:0640--C
Subject: Equipment
Industry
Laborers
Women

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