Title:
The Volcano diggings [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), American, artist (artist)
Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Putnam, Geo. P. (active ca. 1850), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[ca. 1850]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0258:03--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
12.4 x 19 cm.
Content/Description:
Encampment with simple wooden house at left and tents and log cabins in nearby; small figures, one holding picks(?); tall
rock to left, hills in background.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Bayard Taylor; (LC, below title): New York, Geo[rge] P. Putnam; (LR): Lith. of Sarony &
Major.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Camping;
Dwellings;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color