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[Gold mining in Gold Hill, N.C.: Picnic" men and women dancing in barn]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Gold mining in Gold Hill, N.C.: Picnic" men and women dancing in barn]" — antique engraving
[Gold mining in Gold Hill, N.C.: Picnic" men and women dancing in barn]". Antique engraving from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique engraving captures [Gold mining in Gold Hill, N.C.: Picnic" men and women dancing in barn]" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Gold mining in Gold Hill, N.C.: Picnic" men and women dancing in barn]"

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This 1857 wood engraving pairs a scene of gold mining at Gold Hill, North Carolina, with a "picnic" in which men and women dance in a barn, a combination that reflects how illustrators of the period framed the Piedmont mining town as both an industrial site and a rural community. Gold was first found in the Carolina Piedmont decades before the California rush of 1848, and Gold Hill grew into one of the region's best-known mining centers. Wood engravings like this one were the main way many readers saw distant places in the mid-nineteenth century, so the print offers a useful view of how the South was pictured for a national audience just before the Civil War.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes1857
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,271 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136926

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