A sheet showing 5 vignettes, 2 of which have captions. At upper left is an allegorical female figure of Agriculture; at upper right is an allegorical female figure representing the United States; at lower left is a clipper ship at sea in full sail with an American flag, with caption title "Challenze, Californier clipper," probably intended to be "Challenge, California clipper"; at lower right is a sidwheel steamship at sea with all sails raised, with caption title "Baltic, Liverpool steamer"; in the center, dividing the 2 sides of the sheet, is a long vertical image of miners working in a deep mine shaft, probably representing a California gold mine
Alternative Title:
Challenge, Californier clipper and Challenge, California clipper
Description:
Title from captions below 2 of sheet's 5 vignettes.
Lithograph shows hydraulic gold mining operation on the Georgetown divide in El Dorado County, California. Jets of pressurized water hit the bare cliffs
Description:
BEIN Broadsides4to Zc72 880bi: On sheet 22.7 x 24.5 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
California Water and Mining Company and David H. Gildersleeve
Lithograph shows two European American men in the foreground panning for gold in a shallow river in a narrow valley; other miners and tents are visable on the wooded hillsides
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc72 850taz 02: On sheet 11.5 x 17.5 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Print shows a map-like view of San Francisco looking toward North Bay on the left and toward Rincon Point on the right; with significant buildings and locations identified numerically: North Bay, Contra Costa, Yerba Buena Island, California Exchange, Plaza, Leanard's Warehouse, Rincon Point, Market Street Pier, California Street, Central Wharf, Catholic Church, Marine Telegraph, and Anjill Island. Unindexed, Telegraph Hill on left
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +87: On sheet 37 x 49 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Henry Bill
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
BEIN WA Prints +86: On sheet 37 x 49 cm. Date in copyright statement altered from 1852 to 1857., Printed area measures 22.6 x 40.4 cm., Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1857 by Henry Bill in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of Connecticut., Bird's eye view of San Francisco with 13 points of interest labeled: North Bay; Contra Costa; Yerba Buena Island; California Exchange; Plaza; Leonard's Warehouse; Rincon Point; Market Street Pier; California Street; Central Wharf; Catholic Church; Marine Telegraph; Anjill Island., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published for the History of the world by Henry Bill New York
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Print reproduces an original satirical lithograph done by Nathaniel Currier; shows a walking man carrying all manner of implements for gold hunting; to left of center, directional sign: to St. Louis 350 miles, to California, 1700 Ms.
Alternative Title:
I neither borrow nor lend
Description:
At foot of sheet: 370.
Publisher:
Kelloggs & Comstock 150 Fulton Street, N.Y. & 136 Main Street, Hartford and Ensign & Thayer 12 Exchange Street, Buffalo
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Print depicts a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada range with bear and indigenous man; in the left foreground, a bear standing on a fallen tree trunk looks over water to the right; above in the left middle ground, a indigenous man wearing buckskin and holding a bow and arrow stands on a cliff edge; in the background, behind a waterfall, blue mountains
Description:
BEIN Zc72 867pa: On verso, stamp: John Rumbold., Title from caption below image., and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1867 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States in the Southern District of New York.
