Title:
View of Agua Fria Valley [Mariposa County, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Riehn, C., artist (artist)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0157--A
Format:
print on tinted paper: lithograph
21.3 x 26.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Small settlement with three log cabins; tent to right; numerous dirt mounds from mining activity in foreground; miners with
picks, sluice, and gold pan; wagon loaded with barrels pulled by six oxen.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): C. Riehn, del.; (LR): Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California
st[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Environmental degradation;
Equipment;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Lithographs;
Pictorial lettersheets