Unused pictorial lettersheet with four illustrations. The first image, "Starting," shows three miners and a pack mule happily leaving a log cabin. "Not even the colour" shows the three miners at the gold diggings, finding nothing. "The end of the mule" shows the miners trying to hold on to the mule's lead rope as he falls down a mountainside. The fourth image, "Returning," shows the miners in tattered clothing returning to the log cabin
Description:
"5"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, and Miners
Two illustrations, with accompanying text, showing the shooting of James King of William in San Francisco, California and the surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora
Description:
Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy, consisting of only the first of two sheets described by Baird., Title from captions below images., and Second illustration, "Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora," signed in lower right "Huestis."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
King, James, 1822-1856, Casey, James P., Cora, Charles., and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Horizontal print has four vignettes of scenes from the assassination. Assassination: depicts the actual crime in the streets of San Francisco. Surrender of the Jail: depicts mob scene as vigilance committee demands the sheriff to hand the prisoner to them. Funeral of Js. King: depicts the large crowds gathered along the street for the funeral procession. Execution: depicts the hanging of James Casey from the Vigilance Committee Rooms. The vignettes flank a central column of text which describes these scenes in detail
Description:
Title from caption of text column. and Printed area measures 26.2 x 39.5 cm.
Pictorial lettersheet with two lithograph views, the first depicts miners drinking and playing cards in a mining camp bar room, while the second view depicts miners at work with sluice called "Long Tom.'
Alternative Title:
Long Tom
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 407: Imperfect? Integral blank leaf wanting, although Baird makes no mention of this leaf., Caption title., Issued with integral blank leaf., Upper right corner: "10.", and "The artwork appears to be by J.D. Borthwick, a Scottish artist ..."--Sloan.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Mining camps, and Miners
Low angle view. and Depicts a hydraulic mining operation in a steep ravine along the Mokelumne River; numerous buildings of a mining camp, water wheels, and sluices; miners are working with picks along an excavated hillside.
Publisher:
Lith. by Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Mokelumne River (Calif.), Mokelumne Hill (Calif.), and California
Bird's eye view of the city and county of San Francisco, 1868
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +120: Imperfect: Accompanying "Key to view of San Francisco" wanting., Facsimile., "Historical reproduction by the American West from the original lithograph in the Honeyman Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.", and Accompanied by: Key to view of San Francisco. 1 l.
Publisher:
American West
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Album of Houseworth photographs of California presented by Edward Vischer to John Prince-Smith. Photographs depict San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton, Yosemite, dry dock at Hunter's Point, the Monitor Comanche, and the sinking of the Aquila carrying the Comanche, the Mendocino lumber region, geysers in Sonoma County, the Calaveras mammoth tree groves, scenes in the Sierra Nevada, including Lake Tahoe, and views of the Central Pacific Railroad
Description:
Thomas Houseworth (1829-1915) established his San Francisco photographic studio in the mid-1860s. Photographers who worked for Houseworth include George Fiske, Charles L. Weed, and Martin M. Hazeltine., John Prince-Smith was a German political economist, the founder and leader of the German Free Trade Party., Edward Vischer was a pioneer merchant and artist in early California., Printed title page continues "This selection of Houseworth & Co.'s Photographic Views to John Prince Smith, Dedicated by Edward Vischer.", Manuscript captions on mounts, with manuscript numbers on the prints., and Gilt lettering on front cover: California John Prince-Smith.
Publisher:
Houseworth & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.), Sacramento (Calif.), Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.), Yosemite National Park (Calif.), California, Sonoma County, Stockton (Calif.), and Calaveras County (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Vischer, Edward., Central Pacific Railroad Company, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Comanche (Ironclad), and Aquila (Ship)
Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are fighting; miners using various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles; mining camp and rolling hills in distance
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +204: On sheet 29 x 37 cm. and At foot of print: 370.
Publisher:
Kelloggs and Comstock and Ensign and Thayer
Subject (Geographic):
California and Sacramento River (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold panning, Indians of North America, African Americans, and Gold discoveries
