Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Judels, A. (active ca. 1850), Dutch?, undetermined
Creator Role:
undetermined
Title:
[Sacramento River, where the biggest known piece of gold was found, California]
Date:
[18--]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
16.6 x 23.4 cm., on mount 24.2 x 36.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0662--A
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Camping
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Rivers
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Group of miners in camp along river gathered around man holding gold nugget; tens, cook fire, and equipment nearby with other camps along river in distance. The nugget was apparently the largest ever found and weighed approximately thirteen pounds.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC): Sacremento Rivier waar Het Grootste Bekende Stuk Goud Gevonden Is., Californie: Dit Stuk Goud woog circa dertien pond in zuiver gehalt. Printed (LC, above title): Te Amsterdam by Judels. Label attached to mount (on verso): John Howell/importer and publisher of books/434 Post Street, San Francisco 2/California/Sacrame nto River, where the/biggest known piece of gold/was found, California. This/piece of gold weighed approxi-/mately 13 pounds of pure finess./Translated from Dutch title. /California on Stone, p. 130/Excessively rare. Inscriptions in Dutch.
Collection Description:
http://ark.cdlib.o…
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf509nb5c f

[Sacramento River, where the biggest known piece of gold was found, California]
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