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Title
Sutter's Mill, 1851
Contributor
Nahl, Hugo Wilhelm Arthur, 1833-1889
Thomas Houseworth & Co
Date Created and/or Issued
c1876
Publication Information
[San Francisco] : Houseworth & Co
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2006-0226
PHOTO-VAULT: EL DORADO CO.: COLOMA
View of Sutter's Mill photographed by Houseworth & Co. from Arthur Nahl's painting. Shows the mill and two trees (center), side of a building at right, indians in grass at left, buildings in the distance across the river. Text below the photo: First Discovery of gold in California, January 19th, 1848. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867, by A. Roman & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C.
Negative no. 28,463 (4 x 5 in.) b&w negative and color transparency.
From the collection of Dr. Dean L. Mawdsley.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print mounted on 22 x 28 in. board : albumen ; 15 x 20 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001387193CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0483
Subject
Mills--California--Coloma
Gold mining--California--Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place
California
Coloma
Coloma (Calif.)

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