Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining

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Title: Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining
Alternative Title: Methods of mining
Creator: Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902, author
Contributor: Boyd, T. C. artist.
Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878, artist.
Published / Created: [1855]
Publication Place: San Francisco and United States California
Publisher: Published by J.M. Hutchings
Abstract: A sheet with 12 images of various elements of Gold Rush mining operations, each with title and letterpress explanation of the activity depicted. The image for "Rocking the cradle" includes a Chinese worker. On the sheet's right side is a column listing mining locations
Description: Title from caption at top of sheet.
Some images are signed C. Nahl; some are signed T.C. Boyd.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Jas M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California."
Extent: 1 print : 27 x 20 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Wood engravings
Material: wood engraving, black and white ;, paper, ink, and engraving
Resource Type: still image and text
Subject (Geographic): California
California.
Subject (Topic): Gold mines and mining
Mining engineering
Gold miners
Miners
Gold discoveries
Chinese
Subjects: Gold mines and mining > California > Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining > California
Mining engineering > California > Pictorial works
Mining engineering > California
Gold miners > California > Pictorial works
Miners > California > Pictorial works
California > Gold discoveries
Chinese > California > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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