Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher
Title:
The place we hear about
Date:
[1850?]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions:
34.3 x 46 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0445--B
Subject:
- Criminals
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Caricatures
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Lithographs
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Chaotic scene of miners digging, fighting, drinking, getting sick, etc. Man in center shoots another man in face who holds large bag of gold. Group identified as President Polk and his cabinet come down from building on hill to "reap rewards" of California. Dialog balloons.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Lith. & pub. by Serrell & Perkins 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]. Handwritten (LC, within image): 50 Par[is]. Companion piece to 1963.002:0444--B.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf467nb6f z

The place we hear about