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Title: California gold diggers, a scene from actual life at the mines
Creator: Andrew, John (1815-1875), British, engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Camp scene with four miners and dog outside tent; mining equipment (shovels, gold pan, cradle, etc.), and one miner at work with pick at edge of stream; other miners and camps along stream in ravine in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): John Andrew, Sc.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving, hand colored 36.7 x 56.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2c6007rg
BANC PIC 1963.002:0443--C
Subject: Camping
Clothing & dress
Equipment
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining

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