Title:
Way-side scenes in California
Creator/Contributor:
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist (artist)
Anthony & Baker (active 1850s), engraver (engraver)
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher (publisher)
Date:
[not before 1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0179--A
Format:
print on paper mounted on paper: wood engraving
26.5 x 20.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Includes four images showing travelers on road (Indians, miners, Chinese, Mexicans, and settlers); Chinese battle between
ethnic factions fought at "Five Cent Gulch" in Weaverville; Indians smoking out bees of locusts; and Indian women crushing
acorns(?).
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (MC). Date 1854 within image. Printed (each image): Anthony & Baker, sc.; (upper image): C. Nahl, del.; (LL):
J.M. Hutchings, San Francisco.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Chinese;
Events;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Indians of North America;
Miners;
Westward movement;
Women
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Pictorial lettersheets