California gold diggers : mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River

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Title: California gold diggers : mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
Contributor: Kelloggs & Comstock, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1848 and 1850?]
Publication Place: 150 Fulton St., New-York, 136 Main St. Hartford, Conn, 12 Exchange St., Buffalo, United States New York (State) New York, and United States Conneticut Hartford
Publisher: Kelloggs and Comstock and Ensign and Thayer
Abstract: Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are fighting; miners using various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles; mining camp and rolling hills in distance
Description: BEIN WA Prints +204: On sheet 29 x 37 cm.
At foot of print: 370.
Extent: 1 print : 24 x 32 cm, on sheet 26 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: hand colored lithograph ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): California
Sacramento River (Calif.)
Subject (Topic): Gold miners
Gold panning
Indians of North America
African Americans
Gold discoveries
Subjects: Gold miners > Pictorial works
Gold panning > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
African Americans > Pictorial works
California > Gold discoveries > Pictorial works
Sacramento River (Calif.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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