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1848-1865: Gold Rush Era > Diversity in the Changing State

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Title: Yosemite Rancheria, 1878; from a painting by Miss Gordon Cummings.
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

The images in this topic clearly illustrate the great ethnic diversity of California's population during the Gold Rush years. People from all over the world hoped to strike it rich in California's gold mines. Soon Europeans, Asians, and African Americans and Native Americans from other parts of the country joined the Native Californians and Californios.

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