Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Cameron, John (active ca. 1852-ca. 1862), American, lithographer
Creator Name:
Cooper, George Victor (1810-1878), American, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer
Title:
The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]
Date:
c1852
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
14 x 21.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0994:23--A
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Dwellings
- Environmental degradation
- Frontier &
pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Settlements
- Cityscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Several log cabins and tents; covered wagons coming into settlement; two miners entering low roofed shack; numerous hole dug in foreground.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC): The Yankees house at Hang Town: so much lower than their heads, they had to crawl in and double up like jack knives. Printed (LL): G.V. Cooper, del; (LC, above title): On stone by J. Cameron.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf829012d 7

The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]