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.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Mining camps, and Miners
Letters to Wilson Hart Clark chiefly from his older brother, Warren Vester Clark, and his younger brother, Rodney Clark that include information about their experiences in northeastern California, 1850-1868, as well as related enclosures of promissory...
Description:
The sons of William Clark (1795-1862) and Minerva Higgins Clark (1799-1875) born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, included Warren Vester Clark (1821-1898), Wilson Hart Clark (1824-1887), and Rodney Clark (1829-1887). Warren Vester Clark emigrated to Califo...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Calaveras County., California., and Calaveras County (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Candes, Charles A., Clark family., Clark, Rodney, 1824-1887., Clark, Warren Vester, 1821-1898., Clark, Wilson Hart, 1824-1887., Higgins, Burr., and Higgins, Sylvester Noyes.
Subject (Topic):
Canals, Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Water-supply, and Social life and customs
The journals and letters to his family and friends describe an 1849 trip from New York to California, by way of the Lakes, Chicago, St. Louis, and Independence. It notes preparations for the overland journey and traveling with the Wolverine Rangers to...
Description:
In 1849, Swain, with F. A. Bailey, M. Hutchinson, and J. Root,left Youngstown, New York, to join the California gold rush. After a few months at the mines, he returned to New York by Panama. He was a farmer in Youngstown and became prominent in local ...
Subject (Geographic):
California., California, Feather River Valley (Calif.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Bailey, Frederick A., Hutchinson, Michael., Root, John, fl. 1849., Swain, George, 1819-1892., Swain, Patience., Swain, Sabrina., Swain, William, 1821-1904., and Wolverine Rangers (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Ocean travel, Gold discoveries, and Description and travel
Two journals describe trips in 1849 and 1854 from Rushville to California, and a return journey in 1856 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Doyle describes the routes and his experiences from 1849 to 1851 at Long's Bar, Oregon Bar, Union Bar, in the Fea...
Description:
Doyle, son of Edward Doyle of Rushville, Illinois, served in the Mexican War as 2d Lt. in Dunlap's Company of Illinois Cavalry. He traveled to California with his brother James and a company of Rushville friends in 1849, returned home, and traveled a ...
Subject (Geographic):
California., California, Feather River Valley (Calif.), Panama, Isthmus of (Panama), and West (U.S.)
The diary describes an 1849 overland journey to St. Joseph by rail and boat, and then by mule to California. The diary describes two years in the mines and Stuart's return to Lowell, Massachusetts, by way of Nicaragua. In 1851 he set out for Nicaragua...
Description:
In 1849 Stuart joined the Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company of Boston, which combined with the Mt. Washington Company of Boston.
Subject (Geographic):
California., California, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Stuart, Joseph Alonzo, b. 1825., Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company., and Mt. Washington Company.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Ocean travel, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Description and travel, and Gold discoveries
The diary describes the journey from Kansas to California along the California Trail, by way of Fort Kearny, the Platte and Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, the Mormon route by Pilot Springs to the Humboldt and Carson Rivers, Hope Valle...
Description:
Cramer, of Douglas County, Kansas, was judge of the 1855 elections, inspector general of the militia, and territorial treasurer under the Lecompton Constitution. He was the pro-slavery candidate for treasurer in 1857. He left for California in 1859 wi...
Subject (Geographic):
California., California National Historic Trail., Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail., California, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Cramer, Samuel. and Cramer, Thomas J. B.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Politics and government, and Description and travel
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...
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
The journal describes an 1849 voyage to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn, working in the bay unloading ships, and the daily routine of gold mining. Windeler, with eight others, formed a company and their account books, containing entries for various ...
Description:
Windeler was a native of Hamburg, Germany who sailed from New York to California as a member of the crew of the ship Probus.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Christendorff, Carl Frederich., Windeler, Adolphus., and Probus (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Loading and unloading, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Description and travel, and Gold discoveries
Seventy letters from William C. Ellis to his wife describe the trip to California by way of Panama and experiences in the gold fields. Accompanied by six other family letters, including five letters by or to Anne Ellis, wife of the Welsh poet, Robert ...
Description:
The six additional family letters are available on microfilm as part of the Beinecke Library's Frontier Women II microfilm set.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Ellis, Anne., Ellis, Cornelia., Ellis, Robert, 1810-1875., and Ellis, William C.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Gold discoveries
