The miners

A central image of a group of miners is surrounded by an elaborate frame of leaves and sticks with four additional, smaller images enclosed in cartouches along the four sides of the main image. The central image, which has the caption title "The miners," shows a group of ten men prospecting at a makeshift sluice beside a small body of water in a denuded landscape. The cartouche image at top, which has caption title "Sutter's fort," shows the fort established by John Sutter; the cartouche image on left, which is untitled, shows two miners outside a tent; the cartouche image on right, which is untitled, shows three men with backpacks and pickaxes pausing in their trek; and the cartouche image at bottom, with caption title "Mokelumne Hill," shows a hilly, grassy landscape with only a few trees and a small town or encampment at its center