Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and publisher
Title:
Miners weighing their gold/The dream of a prospecting miner
Date:
[18--]
Materials:
print on tinted paper: pen lithograph
Dimensions:
26.5 x 21.4 cm., image on sheet 26.5 x 42.8 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0098--B
Subject:
- Arms & armaments
- Equipment
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Lithographs
- Pictorial lettersheets
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Upper image shows three miners with scale, pans, bread, rifle, bottles, and candle sitting at large table. Lower image depicts sleeping man in nature by fire: rifle, pistol, dagger and other objects near by; vignettes represent his dreams related to gold mining.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (upper image): Miners weighing their gold; (lower image): The dream of a propecting miner. Printed (LC): Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California st[reet]s, S[an] Francisco. Blind stamp (LL): Rolland Freres, Bordeaux. See also 1963.002:0308--A.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7c60115 s

Miners weighing their gold/The dream of a prospecting miner