Born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1816, Thomas Ayres worked as a
draftsman in St. Paul with an engineering firm before arriving in
California in the Gold Rush of 1849. After a short time at the mines,
he soon abandoned his pursuit of gold and began traveling throughout
the interior of California making sketches and drawings in charcoal and
graphite.
In 1855 he was hired by James Mason Hutchings, a San Francisco
journalist, to join the first organized tourist party ever to visit (showing 500 of 3384 characters). |
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