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Title
Where the gold comes from
Creator
Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist Brandard, J., lithographer M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer
Date Created and/or Issued
[1855]
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
Mining camp showing numerous miners at work along stream with picks, shovels, slice, and gold pans; two hunters carrying deer towards log cabin on hill. Possibly Sutter's Mill, California.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F. Marryat, delt.; (LC, below title): M. & N. Hanhart, impt.; (LR): J. Brandard, lith. From "Mountains and molehills, or Recollections of a burnt journal" by Frank Marryat (London, 1855).
Type
image
Format
Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 13.2 x 19 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf929012ws
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:1--A
Subject
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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