Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: [Mining camp in Coloma, California]
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Audubon, John Woodhouse (1812-1862), American, artist (based on original
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Creator Name:
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Taber, W. (active ca. 1891), artist
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Title:
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[Mining camp in Coloma, California]
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Date:
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[not before 1850]
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Materials:
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painting on tinted paper: ink, wash, and gouache
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Dimensions:
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16.8 x 30.6 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0303--B
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Subject:
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- California, Northern
- Camping
- Dwellings
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Mining
- Paintings
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Mining camp with several tents and two wooden houses surrounded by high mountains in distance. This site was apparently located half mile above Coloma (where Sutter's Mill was located) in northwest canyon of American Fork of Sacramento River.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Supplied title. Signature (LR): Taber. Handwritten on mount (modern) (LL): The discovery of gold mining camp; (LR): N[orth] W[est] Canyon, American fork of Sacramento River/1/2 mile above Coloma, May 4. 1850/ from a drawing by [M.R.?] Audobon (James Woodhouse?). Note from Inventory Sheets: Art Department/The Century Co., Older coded catalogue or price numbers on mat and on both sides of drawing's mount; various historical notes (the above apparently transcribed from previous mount). Possibly used for illustration or reproduction.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf2j49p1r7
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