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Gold Rush

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"Machine à laver et à amalgamer l'Or" - Gold-washing machine Lesestre

Page from an 1850 Parisian newspaper

 This gold-washing machine was presented by the Parisian immigration company "La Fortune" as proof it would without fail bring back from California all the gold ...more
"Un Placer en Californie" - Placer mining in California Capitaine de la Carriere

Book plate from "Voyage aux Pays Auriferes," Capitaine de la Carriere, 1855

 A beautiful plate, based on very obvious misinformation. ...more
Compagnie française et américaine de San Francisco, 1850 Appert fils et Vavasseur

A Parisian immigration company’s stock certificate.

 

When the French, like men from every country in the world, caught gold fever, immigration companies were hastily formed in Paris to facilitate the departure ...more
 

 
   
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