Title:
[Gold washing in Mariposa County, California]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[not before 1850]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0268--A
Format:
print on paper: etching
22.7 x 34.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Gold mining by creek in forest setting. Older man working with sluice at right; young man with pan at bank in foreground;
man driving mule around ore crusher (arrastra) at left.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC): [...] Creek, Mariposa County, 1850. Possibly later recreation of 1850 scene.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Equipment;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Etchings