Gold washing in California, c1840s (c1880). Artist: Unknown

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Gold washing in California, c1840s (c1880). After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, some 300,000 people flooded into California in what became known as the California Gold Rush. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.

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Size: 3405px × 5131px
Location: World,North and Central America,United States,California
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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