Title:
Coloma [El Dorado County, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Hunter & Co.'s Express (active ca. 1848), publisher (publisher)
Date:
[not before 1848]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0016--B
Format:
print on paper: engraving
19.5 x 31.5 cm., sheet
Content/Description:
Distant view of town with houses and buildings scattered at foothills; rolling hills in background. Location where gold was
discovered by John Marshall in 1848.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Published by Hunter & Co.'s Express; (LR): Sutter's Mill. Handwritten (LR):
El Dorado County, California/in making a dam for which the gold in California was discovered/in 1848, January. Blind stamp
(UC): [Goodwin?] Hartford.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Gold rushes;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Engravings;
Pictorial lettersheets