Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Dembour et Gangel, French, undetermined
Title:
[Discovery of rich gold mines in Sacramento, California]
Date:
[not before 1848]
Materials:
print on paper: woodcut, hand colored
Dimensions:
19.9 x 28.2 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0265--A
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Clothing & dress
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold
rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Woodcuts
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Gold mining scene with men gold panning, digging with picks, and transporting ore along narrow stream (includes Afro American man); group of men at left line up to weigh gold. Two buildings (mill?) and sailing ships in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title, text and lyrics about gold rush (UC, on verso): Découverte des riches mines d'or de Sacramento en Californie... Handwritten (UC): California. Date 1848 printed in body of text on verso. Printed (LC, on verso): Fabriqué d'Images de Dembour et Gangel, à Metz. et à Paris, rue Serpente, 7. Inscriptions in French.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf1g50075 1

[Discovery of rich gold mines in Sacramento, California]