Picture No | 10219170 |
Date | 1853 |
Description | Winter in the Californian Mountains 1853 |
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Two gold-miners returning to their hut with provisions, during the particularly harsh winter of 1852-3. Over 20 feet of snow fell on the mountains of California and when the thaw came the city of Sacramento was flooded.
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Source | Illustrated London News. 1853. p 212. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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