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Two tear sheets with prints illustrating article on lifestyle of gold miners in California. Subjects of illustrations include Chinese miners, miners cooking over campfire in mountains, miners dancing, and miners playing gambling card games Monte and Faro.

Title
Mining life in California
Published
1857
Full Collection Name
Selections from The Bancroft Library
Project Name
Gold Rush Materials
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 2009.002
Subject (Topic)
Gambling
Miners
Gold miners
Chinese
Card games
Geographic Coverage
California
Type
Image
Format
Pictorial works
Language
English
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Artist unknown. Tear sheets from Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1857 (p. 631-634). Sheets include text from article: Mining Life in California.
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