Departure for El Dorado

Description

Title: Departure for El Dorado
Alternative Title: Departure for Eldorado
Contributor: Quirot & Co., lithographer.
Published / Created: [between 1850 and 1855?]
Publication Place: S.F. [San Francisco] and United States California San Francisco
Publisher: Lith. by Quirot
Abstract: A satirical look at the characters in Gold Rush California, including miners, gamblers, charlatans, and other get-rich-quick schemers. Includes scenes of a miner carrying/wearing all his worldy goods, an exorbitant restaurant bill at Delmonico, an ersatz Jenny Lind in performance, and a central group of both men and women jostling their way into a mine
Description: Title from sign above mine entrance at center of image.
Extent: 1 print : 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Pictorial works
Humor
Lithographs
Material: black and white ;, paper, ink, and lithography
Resource Type: stilll image and text
Subject (Geographic): California
Subject (Topic): Miners
Internal migrants
Gold discoveries
Wealth
Subjects: Miners > California > Caricatures and cartoons
Internal migrants > California > Caricatures and cartoons
California > Gold discoveries > Pictorial works
Wealth > Humor

Access: Public
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