Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Mine
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Accession number:
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35400
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Record number:
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35400-4
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JCB call number:
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B722 C797
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Image title:
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Mine
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[André Cailleau]
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Image date:
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[1722]
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Image function:
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plate; vol. 1, following p. 297
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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13.2 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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7.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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8.5 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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French
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Description:
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View of a mine. Men descend a ladder made of a tree trunk to reach the ore. Items in the image are numbered for identification in adjacent text.
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Source creator:
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Coreal, Francisco, 1648?-1708
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Source Title:
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Voyages de François Coreal aux Indes Occidentales, contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable pendant son séjour depuis 1666 ...
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Source place of publication:
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A Paris
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Source publisher:
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Chez André Cailleau, Place de Sorbonne, au coin de la ruë des Maçons, à Saint-André
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Source date:
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M DCC XXII [1722]
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notes:
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Text describes the workers as native Americans who use pickaxes to remove ore and who carry the ore up in sacks on their backs. The ore is either gold from Chile or silver from Peru. No Spanish original of Coreal's voyages is known, and the identity of the author has been questioned. This book was later reprinted under titles: Recueil de voyages dans l'Amerique Mériodionale, Amsterdam, 1738, and Relations des voyages de François Coreal, Brussels, 1736.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Mine shafts
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Subject headings:
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Mines and mineral resources
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