Engraved figure of a prospector setting out to look for gold
1862
An illustration of a miner named Aubert departing on a discovery trip, engraved by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques for volume five of the French travel journal Le Tour du monde in 1862. European periodicals carried images like this to readers who followed the California rush from a distance. It belongs to a body of Gold Rush art rather than to photography.
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