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Title: The bar of a gambling saloon
Creator: Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist Brandard, J., lithographer
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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Elaborate saloon interior showing men from various walks of life (Spaniards, Chinese, frontiermen, and other) at bar; drunkard to right; dogs; and playing cards and bottles strewn on floor.
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 13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9p30130r
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:5--A
Subject: Chinese
Frontier & pioneer life
Interiors
Manners & customs
Spaniards

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