Title:
The Yankees house at Hang Town [Placerville, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Cooper, George Victor (1810-1878), American, artist (artist)
Cameron, John (active ca. 1852-ca. 1862), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1852
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0994:23--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
14 x 21.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Several log cabins and tents; covered wagons coming into settlement; two miners entering low roofed shack; numerous hole dug
in foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): The Yankees house at Hang Town: so much lower than their heads, they had to crawl in and double up like
jack knives. Printed (LL): G.V. Cooper, del; (LC, above title): On stone by J. Cameron.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Dwellings;
Environmental degradation;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color