Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Ensign & Thayer (active ca. 1847-ca. 1851), undetermined
- Kelloggs & Comstock (1849-1852), American, publisher
Title:
California gold diggers, mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
Date:
[between 1849 and 1852]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
24.4 x 34 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0266--B
Subject:
- Afro-Americans
- California, Northern
- Clothing & dress
- Frontier &
pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Indians of North America
- Miners
- Mining
- Rivers
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Diverse crowd of men (including Indians and Afro-Americans) and one elder woman at work along busy river bank. Miners use various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles and wear costumes reflecting their backgrounds. Mining camp and rolling hills in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St[reet], New York & 136 Main St[reet], Hartford, Conn.; (LC, below title): 370; (LR): Ensign & Thayer, 12 Exchange St[reet], Buffalo. Date based on active dates of publisher. For variant see 1963.002:0471--C.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf4w1010n w

California gold diggers, mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River