Title:
View of Montecristo [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Monmonier, William B., artist and publisher (artist and publisher)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
1856
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0169--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
23.2 x 28.5 cm., image on sheet 46.4 x 28.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Settlement situated on steep hillside; several openings to mineshafts in middleground with hills of rubble below; ranch in
foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): Scooper's Ranch in the foreground.
Drawn & published by W[illia]m B. Monmonier, Aug[ust] 1st, 1856, price 50 cents.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Environmental degradation;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Lithographs;
Pictorial lettersheets