Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Cameron, John (active ca. 1852-ca. 1862), American, lithographer
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Creator Name:
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Cooper, George Victor (1810-1878), American, artist
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Role:
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lithographer
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Title:
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The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]
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Date:
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c1852
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Materials:
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print on paper: lithograph, color
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Dimensions:
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14 x 21.7 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0994:23--A
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Subject:
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- California, Northern
- Dwellings
- Environmental degradation
- Frontier &
pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Settlements
- Cityscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Several log cabins and tents; covered wagons coming into settlement; two miners entering low roofed shack; numerous hole dug in foreground.
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Heading:
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Printed title (LC): The Yankees house at Hang Town: so much lower than their heads, they had to crawl in and double up like jack knives. Printed (LL): G.V. Cooper, del; (LC, above title): On stone by J. Cameron.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf829012d7
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