Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
The independent gold hunter on his way to California: I neither borrow nor lend
Date:
[between 1849 and 1852]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
43.3 x 34.3 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1485--B
Subject:
- Clothing & dress
- Equipment
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Overland journeys to
the Pacific
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Prospector loaded down with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food items making his way to California; signpost displaying distances to California and St. Louis.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LR): 152 Nassau St[reet], cor[er] of Spruce, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): 190. Date based on lithographer/publish er active dates at above location. See also 1963.002:0440--B and 1963.002:0441--B.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf1b69p08 w

The independent gold hunter on his way to California: I neither borrow nor lend