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Title
Sunday in the California Diggings
Creator
Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878, artist
Anthony & Baker, printer
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Image is of miners engaged in various activities: fighting, horse racing, drinking, reading, writing, and washing clothes. "Published at the Wide West Office. Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. "C. Nahl."--text, within image, lower left. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, below image to the right. Paper color: buff.
Baird notes that this image is the same as Nahl's celebrated oil painting of this subject at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento.
Type
image
Format
High resolution
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 25 x 39.8 cm (9 7/8 x 15 1/2 in.) overall.
Identifier
48052:054
2373
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23441
Language
English
Subject
California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining--California
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source
California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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