Title:
Downieville, [Sierra County] California
Creator/Contributor:
Eastman, Harrison (1823-1886), American, artist (artist)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Downieville Book Store (active ca. 1854), publisher (publisher)
Date:
c1854
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1441--C
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
35.2 x 49.9 cm.
Content/Description:
Town at bend of Yuba River; river with manmade diversions and channels, sluices, and waterwheels in foreground; small cabins
along shore.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith[ograph]y of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, above title): Entered... 1854 by
H. Eastman... California; (LC, below title): Pub. by the Downieville Book Store; (LR): H. Eastman, del.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Environmental degradation;
Mining;
Rivers;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color