Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Holdredge, Ransom Gillett (1836-1899), American, lithographer and
publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
[Gold mines of California]
Date:
[185-?]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
25.3 x 33.4 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0251--B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Fires
- Gold rushes
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Lithographs, color
- Portraits
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Distressed Derville flees burning city (San Francisco 1851?); Classical-style buildings line street filled with fleeing crowds (women, men and children) as flames engulf buildings in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (UC): Les Mines d'Or de la Californie. Printed (LR): Paris, Lith. Hollier, r. Galande 37. Printed text (LC) describes fictional? character Derville and his adventures in California. Inscriptions in French.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf5p3010p d

[Gold mines of California]