Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Monmonier, William B., artist and publisher
Group Creator Name:
- Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Creator Role:
artist and publisher
Title:
View of Montecristo [California]
Date:
1856
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions:
23.2 x 28.5 cm., image on sheet 46.4 x 28.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0169--B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Environmental degradation
- Mining
- Settlements
- Lithographs
- Pictorial lettersheets
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Settlement situated on steep hillside; several openings to mineshafts in middleground with hills of rubble below; ranch in foreground.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): Scooper's Ranch in the foreground. Drawn & published by W[illia]m B. Monmonier, Aug[ust] 1st, 1856, price 50 cents.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf496nb5f 4

View of Montecristo [California]