Flyer calling men and women west to the goldfields
1849
A recruitment sheet from the summer of 1849 aimed at both men and women willing to make the journey to California. Handbills of this kind fed the migration that passed through San Francisco's harbour on the way to the diggings.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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