Miners at work with long toms / copied from a daguerreotyp sketch by Justh & Quirot lithographers.

[San Francisco, California] : [Justh, Quirot & Co.], [between 1850 and 1859?]

1 print : lithograph, black-and-white ; 25 x 19 cm

Title from caption below top image.

A sheet divided by a "frame" of trees into a top image, two lower side images, and a lower blank space for a written message. In the top image, a group of miners in a forest clearing work at two "long tom" sluices spanning a stream, with a few small buildings in the background. The lower side images consist of a standing prospector, equipped with shovel, pickaxe, and pan, and a seated Native American.

English

August 05, 2020

Baird, J.A. California's pictorial letter sheets, 1849-1869, no. 159

Lithographs.