Marshall Find

Digital Record

Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b5_f8_778a

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Image of Marshall Find

Additional Description

General note

Colored plate of a Western scene published in Westward America by H .R. Driggs.

General note

Caption in item: "In a mill race dug by Sutter's workmen, James Marshall, the foreman picked up gold that set thousands rushing for this Western Eldorado. A diary, kept by Henry Bigler, one of the Mormon Battalion men at the scene, sets January 24,1848 as

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Subjects

Genre / Form

Watercolors (Paintings)

Geographic

Sutters Mill (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

Topical

Linked Records

William Henry Jackson papers | William Henry Jackson photographs and art, 1842-1943 | Marshall Find, 1941

Repository Details

Repository Details

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