Title:
Stage drivers's retreat and billiard hall, Columbia, California
Creator/Contributor:
Sloan, Blanding (active ca. 1931), artist (artist)
Date:
1931
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0923--B
Format:
print on paper: etching
32 x 40.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Exterior view of corner tavern. Two men seated in shade of large tree sit before the open doors of the retreat.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LL). Signature (LR): Blanding Sloan. Printed (LR, within image): Blanding Sloan, [19]31. Printed label
(LC): Stage drivers's retreat and billiard hall, Columbia once entered a competition to become capita of the state... Todays
she is a ghost city, where little remains save the relics of the gold rush, and wraiths of long forgetton men, Philip Johnston.
Subjects:
Buildings;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes
Genre/Format:
Etchings