The mining business in four pictures

Description

Title: The mining business in four pictures
Contributor: Britton & Rey, lithographer, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1852 and 1860?]
Publication Place: S.F. [San Francisco] and United States California San Francisco
Publisher: Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
Abstract: Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
Description: BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner.
BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner.
Title from caption above image.
Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
Extent: 1 print : 19 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: lithograph, black and white ;, paper, ink, and lithography
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): California
Subject (Topic): Gold miners
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Gold discoveries
Subjects: Gold miners > California > Pictorial works
Miners > California > Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining > California > Pictorial works
California > Gold discoveries

Access: Public
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