The gold fields of California during the 1848 Gold Rush. Gold miners panning for gold, others digging for ore with picks. Les terrains auriferes. Handcolored lithograph by Emile Lemaitre from Munerelle’s Les Phenomenes et Curiosites de la Nature (Natural Phenomena and Curiosities), Libraire Derivaux, Strasbourg, 1856.

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