Butte City – Vintage Print
![Butte City, [ca. 1854] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/754e750e1b0c-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Butte City, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Butte City, a mining settlement in Butte County in northern California, is the place this drawing records. Dated to about 1854, the sheet was made with watercolor, ink brush, and opaque white over a faint graphite underdrawing, a careful method suited to recording a town's layout and details. Camps like Butte City sprang up quickly after gold was discovered in California in 1848, and images of them show how miners and merchants crowded into the gulches and river flats. It is a useful record of how fast the gold rush reshaped the state's interior.
| Created / published | [ca. 1854] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor, ink brush, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. |
| Genre | Drawings American Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Purchase ; 1999 ; (DLC/PP-1999:043). |
| Subjects | Gold rushes--California--1850-1860. Gold mining--California--1850-1860. Cities & towns--California--1850-1860.United States--California--Butte City |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,652 × 3,752 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222272 |
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