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Publisher Kelloggs & Comstock American
Publisher Ensign & Thayer American
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A caricature of a prospector laden with tools and supplies. A signpost pointing in two directions in the background is lettered: "To St. Louis 350 Miles / To California 1700 Ms"
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Title: The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California
Publisher:
Kelloggs & Comstock (American, active Hartford, Connecticut, 1848–50)
Publisher:
Ensign & Thayer (Buffalo, New York)
Date: 1848–9
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions:
Image: 12 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (31.4 × 21.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (34.7 × 23.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, 1967
Accession Number: 67.618.1
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