Content/Description:Mining camp with several tents and two wooden houses surrounded by high mountains in distance. This site was apparently located a half mile above Coloma (where Sutter's Mill was located) in the northwest canyon of the American Fork of the Sacramento River.
Title
[Mining camp in Coloma, California]
Published
not before 1850
Full Collection Name
Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1963.002:0303--B
Type
Image
Extent
16.8 x 30.6 cm.
Other Physical Details
painting on tinted paper: ink, wash, and gouache
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Notes/Inscriptions:Supplied title. Signature (LR): Taber. Handwritten on mount (modern) (LL): The discovery of gold mining camp; (LR): N[orth] W[est] Canyon, American fork of Sacramento River/1/2 mile above Coloma, May 4. 1850/ from a drawing by [M.R.?] Audobon (James Woodhouse?). Note from Inventory Sheets: Art Department/The Century Co., Older coded catalogue or price numbers on mat and on both sides of drawing's mount; various historical notes (the above apparently transcribed from previous mount). Possibly used for illustration or reproduction.
Supplied title. Signature (LR): Taber. Handwritten on mount (modern) (LL): The discovery of gold mining camp; (LR): N[orth] W[est] Canyon, American fork of Sacramento River/1/2 mile above Coloma, May 4. 1850/ from a drawing by [M.R.?] Audobon (James Woodhouse?). Note from Inventory Sheets: Art Department/The Century Co., Older coded catalogue or price numbers on mat and on both sides of drawing's mount; various historical notes (the above apparently transcribed from previous mount). Possibly used for illustration or reproduction.
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