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Album containing over one hundred watercolor drawings primarily of plants and insects from Northern California. The views were executed during Rupalley's travels across California southern mines, the area south of Stockton and around the Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers, and Sierra Nevada foothills (Rupalley calls this area "Californie du Sud"). Some of the drawings have annotations in French and include transliterations of Indian plant names. The album also contains several views executed during Rupalley's travels aboard the ships "Louis" and "Surprise", and a number of published prints (not by Rupalley) related to mining and California life. The album was probably assembled at a later date, as most of the drawings and sheets were cut out and pasted into the present album, perhaps from a number of other sketchbooks. The name "Georges Rupalley, Caen" is handwritten on album's inside front cover and may indicate the compiler of the present album.

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