2-356-049 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gold washing in California, c1840s (c1880). After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, some 300,000 people flooded into California in what became known as the California Gold Rush. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.