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Vintage Americana Print - Gold miners at Gold Hill - Historic Wall Art Gift – Antique Wall Art

Vintage Americana Print - Gold miners at Gold Hill - Historic Wall Art Gift — historic print
Vintage Americana Print - Gold miners at Gold Hill - Historic Wall Art Gift. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Vintage Americana Print - Gold miners at Gold Hill - Historic Wall Art Gift comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Vintage Americana Print - Gold miners at Gold Hill - Historic Wall Art Gift

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Gold Hill is a name shared by several mining towns in the United States, so this scene of miners at work most likely shows one specific camp, though the record does not say which. Gold mining in the nineteenth century drew men with picks, pans and sluice boxes to hillsides and creek beds, often for long, hard days with uncertain pay. Pictures of these early camps preserve the tools, clothing and rough working conditions of the period, and they reward a close look at how the labor was organized.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan1,104 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121380

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