Title:
[Discovery of rich gold mines in Sacramento, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Dembour et Gangel, French, undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[not before 1848]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0265--A
Format:
print on paper: woodcut, hand colored
19.9 x 28.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Gold mining scene with men gold panning, digging with picks, and transporting ore along narrow stream (includes Afro American
man); group of men at left line up to weigh gold. Two buildings (mill?) and sailing ships in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title, text and lyrics about gold rush (UC, on verso): Découverte des riches mines d'or de Sacramento en Californie...
Handwritten (UC): California. Date 1848 printed in body of text on verso. Printed (LC, on verso): Fabriqué d'Images de Dembour
et Gangel, à Metz. et à Paris, rue Serpente, 7. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Sacramento (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Woodcuts