Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: [Gold mines of California]

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/tf5p3010pd