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Title: [Placer mining]
Creator: Friend, Washington F. (1820-1886), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Six miners on small river island panning or placer mining using sluice and cradle; mountain landscape with trees and waterfalls.
Supplied title. Signature (LR): W.F. Friend. Marks (on verso) in crayon and pencil.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 30.7 x 41 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9w101344
BANC PIC 1963.002:0218--B
Subject: Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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