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Heading: (Gold Rush)
Author: Reilly, J.J.
Title: Members of the Marysville Society of California Pioneers, arrived in California in 1849
Place: Odd Fellow's Building
Publisher: Woods' Gallery
Date: c.1870's
Item # : 166523
Sale Number   319
Lot Number   283
Sale Name    
The Library of Ford Mitchell: Early Americana, Texas & the West
Sale Date   10/20/2005
Price realized   $ 287
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Description:
13x19" photomontage on 16x19¾" original printed mount.
Bust portraits of 111 49'ers, with printed captions identifying them by name. By the end of 1849, Marysville had a resident population of 500.
Condition:
Faded, dampstain to mount and at edges of photograph, 2½ closed tear into photograph, some other edge-tears and creases; lower mount edge chipped with loss of one name (#98), some surface wear; else good.
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