Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel

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Title: Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel
Contributor: Britton & Rey, lithographer, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1850 and 1859?]
Publication Place: San Francisco, California and United States California San Francisco
Publisher: Lith. & pub. by Britton & Rey, cor. Mont. & Comm'l. Sts
Abstract: Two scenes of mining life. In the top scene, three miners, one of whom may be African-American, sit around a table in a cabin while a fourth miner weighs a small amount of gold. In the bottom scene, miners and their pack animals walk along a hilly trail and beside an enormous tree
Description: Title from captions at bottom of each image.
"7"--Upper right corner.
Extent: 1 print : 24 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: lithograph, black-and-white ;, paper, ink, and lithography
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): California
Subject (Topic): Miners
Gold miners
African Americans
Gold mines and mining
Gold discoveries
Subjects: Miners > California > Pictorial works
Gold miners > California > Pictorial works
African Americans > California > Pictorial works
Gold mines and mining > California > Pictorial works
California > Gold discoveries > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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