The Mining Business in Four Pictures
The Mining Business in Four Pictures
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- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print depicting four views of life in the California mining business: "Going into it" shows two miners with prospecting gear; "Making Something" shows them discovering gold in a pan; "Making Nothing" depicts them beside a large empty hole; "Going out of it" depicts them walking toward town.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- maker
- Britton & Rey
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- Measurements
- image: 7 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in; 19.685 cm x 25.0825 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3878
- catalog number
- 60.3878
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Comic prints
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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