Title:
Sonora, [California] January 1852
Creator/Contributor:
Goddard, George H. (active ca. 1852-ca. 1853), British, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Pollard & Britton (active ca. 1852), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1852
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0142--B
Format:
print on tinted paper: lithograph
27.3 x 42.2 cm., sheet
Content/Description:
View from above of town with clusters of houses and buildings in valley; groups of miners with picks and shovels work in foreground;
hills and Bald Mountain in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Entered... 1852 by G.H. Goddard... California; (LR): Pollard & Brittons Lith.
Merchant Str[eet] S[an] F[rancisco]. Handwritten (within image): Bald Mountain 1800 ft. high. Attribution based on comparison
to 1963.002:0142(variant)--ALB.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Dwellings;
Miners;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs;
Pictorial lettersheets