Title:
[Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Sloan, Blanding (active ca. 1931), artist (artist)
Date:
1931
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0922--B
Format:
print on paper: etching
31.7 x 40.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Stone wall with "Sutter Mill" imbedded in it stands in shallow water of the American River. Miner with gold pan in his hand
and pick over his shoulder in foreground surrounded by lush vegetation.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LL). Signature (LR): Blanding Stone. Printed (LL, within image): Blanding Sloan, [19]31. Printed label
(LC): Sutter Mill, Coloma, California, The spot where gold was discovered in California... Here dawned the first day of a
golden epoch, Philip Johnston.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Sacramento (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Etchings