A prospecting party

Description

Title: A prospecting party
Contributor: Britton & Rey, lithographer, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1850 and 1854]
Publication Place: San Francisco and United States California San Francisco
Publisher: Britton & Rey
Abstract: Unused pictorial lettersheet with four illustrations. The first image, "Starting," shows three miners and a pack mule happily leaving a log cabin. "Not even the colour" shows the three miners at the gold diggings, finding nothing. "The end of the mule" shows the miners trying to hold on to the mule's lead rope as he falls down a mountainside. The fourth image, "Returning," shows the miners in tattered clothing returning to the log cabin
Description: "5"--Upper right corner.
Extent: 1 print : 18 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Pictorial lettersheets California San Francisco
Lithographs
Material: lithograph, b&w ;, paper, ink, and lithography
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): California
Subject (Topic): Mines and mineral resources
Gold mines and mining
Miners
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources > California > Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining > California > Pictorial works
Miners > California > Pictorial works
Miners
Mines and mineral resources
California > San Francisco

Access: Public
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