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
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
[1852]
Call Number:
WA Prints +121
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +80: Some tears and stains. On sheet 27 x 41 cm., BEIN WA Prints +121: On sheet 36 x 53 cm., Coordinates not present and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
[1852]
Call Number:
WA Prints +80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +80: Some tears and stains. On sheet 27 x 41 cm., BEIN WA Prints +121: On sheet 36 x 53 cm., Coordinates not present and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Snapshots of a westward rail journey in 1892, possibly taken by someone traveling with a group of Freemasons. Men in masonic caps and regalia appear in several of the images, and one is captioned "Group of citizens (at Station to see Sir Kts.)". The photos show Niagara Falls, New York, including a boat moving through the streets on a trolley track; Pullman, Illinois; the depots at Red Oaks, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska; the railroad bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa; Florence and other unidentified towns in Nebraska; Gunnison, Roggin, and Glenwood Springs in Colorado; the Marshall Pass through the Rocky Mountains; unidentified prairie homesteads and scenes; and several unidentified depots and scenic stops
Description:
Photographer unidentified., Title devised by cataloger., and Manuscript captions on verso of most photos. Card mounts printed on verso: "From Dame, Stoddard & Kendall, 374 Washington Street, Boston. Kodak, Kamaret and Hawk-eye Cameras, Developing & Reloading."
Subject (Geographic):
United States, West (U.S.), Missouri river, Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Pullman (Chicago, Ill.), Omaha (Neb.), Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Colo.), Gunnison (Colo.), and Marshall Pass (Colo.)
Subject (Topic):
Railroads, Railroad travel, Freemasons, Travelers, Railroad stations, Railroad bridges, Frontier and pioneer life, and Prairies
Society of California Pioneers of New England, creator
Published / Created:
[1898?]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc72 898so
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Society of California Pioneers of New England membership certificate illustrated with scenes of California; View of San Francisco in 1849; Sutter's Mill; Sutter's Fort; Mining scene in early days, and other vignettes
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 898so: On sheet 73 x 57 cm. Certificate filled out in manuscript: Simon Mulligan Arrived in California March 13, 1850, having sailed from Boston in ship Argonaut, Oct. 30, 1849, making the passage around Cape Horn in 134 days. Places for signatures of President and Secretary are signed: Chas. A. Dole and Stephen W. Foster. Dated in manuscript: January 24, 1898. and Title from caption.
Publisher:
Society of California Pioneers of New England
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Society of California Pioneers of New England and Argonaut (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life and Description and travel
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
