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Title
[View of Greenwood Valley, California]
Creator
Rupalley, Jules (active ca. 1849-ca. 1859), French, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1851
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
Small mining town with main street running from left to right; mostly one-story wooden buildings line each side; small figures, horses and horse-drawn carriages scattered throughout scene; groups of miners, some digging with picks. Sparsely forested hills in distance.
Supplied title. Signature (LR): J.R. fecit. Handwritten: Greenwood Valley, 1851, California, nord. Inscriptions in French and English.
Type
image
Format
Drawing on tinted paper: wash, pen, and pencil 18.4 x 21.8 cm., image
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9489p5c1
BANC PIC 1963.002:1305:005--ALB
Subject
California, Northern
Dwellings
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Mining
Settlements

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