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Photographs of drawings from the California Gold Rush period : from the files of the Century Company.
BANC PIC 1985.058--AXLOCAL
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Title:

Photographs of drawings from the California Gold Rush period: from the files of the Century Company

Creator/Contributor:

Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878

Creator/Contributor:

Century Company

Abstract:

Drawings are captioned in ms.: Sacramento City Fire of November 2, 1852 [city on fire, refugees on foot] -- On the Road to Nevada [shows horses pulling a loaded wagon, annotated: IX Life in the Mines, on verso].

Date:

approximately 1890? (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Fires -- California -- Sacramento -- Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining -- California -- Pictorial works
Incendies -- Californie -- Sacramento -- Ouvrages illustrés
Fires
Gold mines and mining
Carts & wagons
Sacramento (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- Sacramento

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Original drawings date from ca. 1852, probably by Charles Christian Nahl.
Photographs stamped on verso: Art Department. The Century Co ... New York. Probably used as Century Magazine illustrations.
Other vintage photographic reproductions of drawing by Nahl cataloged as: Photographs of art work by Charles Christian Nahl (BANC PIC 1981.121) and: Photographs of Charles Christian Nahl's drawings from a trip across the Isthmus of Panama in 1851 (BANC PIC 1984.077).

Type:

graphic
Pictorial works.
Illustrations.

Physical Description:

photoprint
2 mounted photographic reproductions : albumen ; image 13 x 20 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1985.058--AXLOCAL

Origin:

California