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Title
Downieville, [Sierra County] California
Creator
Eastman, Harrison (1823-1886), American, artist Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer Downieville Book Store (active ca. 1854), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
c1854
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
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Description
Town at bend of Yuba River; river with manmade diversions and channels, sluices, and waterwheels in foreground; small cabins along shore.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith[ograph]y of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, above title): Entered... 1854 by H. Eastman... California; (LC, below title): Pub. by the Downieville Book Store; (LR): H. Eastman, del.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, color 35.2 x 49.9 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8v19p598
BANC PIC 1963.002:1441--C
Subject
California, Northern
Environmental degradation
Mining
Rivers
Settlements

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