Title:
[Mercury mine at New Almaden, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist (artist)
Date:
[1845-1851]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:31--ALB
Format:
drawing on paper: pencil
13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Works of mercury mine; various brick and wooden buildings at base of hills; trees felled, foreground, and in right distance.
Possibly the mining establishment, operated by Alexander Forbes, named after Almaden mercury mines in Spain.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC): Californie - établissement (asiento) des mines de mercure de la nueva almaden. See also
item 1963.002:0040. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Travel sketches