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1.
The mining business in four pictures

Published / Created:
[between 1852 and 1860?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 429
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The mining business in four pictures

2.
The mining business in four pictures

Published / Created:
[between 1852 and 1860?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 428
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The mining business in four pictures

3.
Miners at work with long toms

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 409
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sheet divided by a "frame" of trees into a top image, two lower side images, and a lower blank space for a written message. In the top image, a group of miners in a forest clearing work at two "long tom" sluices spanning a stream, with a few small b...
Description:
Title from caption below top image.
Publisher:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, Gold panning, and Indians of North America
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miners at work with long toms

4.
Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 399
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of mining life. In the top scene, three miners, one of whom may be African-American, sit around a table in a cabin while a fourth miner weighs a small amount of gold. In the bottom scene, miners and their pack animals walk along a hilly tra...
Description:
Title from captions at bottom of each image.
Publisher:
Lith. & pub. by Britton & Rey, cor. Mont. & Comm'l. Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Miners, Gold miners, African Americans, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel

5.
Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 393 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two g...
Alternative Title:
Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

6.
Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 393 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two g...
Alternative Title:
Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

7.
Celestial empire in California

Published / Created:
[185-]
Call Number:
WA Prints 400
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Unused pictorial letter sheet. Upper illustration entitled "Miners" shows Chinese doing daily chores and eating outside camp tents. Lower illustration entitled "Gamblers" shows Chinese gambling around a table. Miners is a mirror image of an 1857 litho...
Description:
Title from caption at top of images.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, and Gambling
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Celestial empire in California

8.
Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining

Creator:
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902, author
Published / Created:
[1855]
Call Number:
WA Prints 415
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A sheet with 12 images of various elements of Gold Rush mining operations, each with title and letterpress explanation of the activity depicted. The image for "Rocking the cradle" includes a Chinese worker. On the sheet's right side is a column listi...
Alternative Title:
Methods of mining
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Published by J.M. Hutchings
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Mining engineering, Gold miners, Miners, Gold discoveries, and Chinese
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining

9.
[Watercolor painting of gold mining on the Mokelumne River in California and a promissory note].

Creator:
Burgess, George Henry, 1931-1905, artist
Published / Created:
[1849, 1853]
Call Number:
WA MSS S-4520
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor painting with a title inscription in the lower center, "Mokelume River," which depicts a placer mining scene along the Mokelumne River in California with miners using sluice boxes and hoses for hydraulic mining as well as two Chinese Americ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mokelumne River, Mokelumne River (Calif.), and West (U.S.).
Subject (Name):
Burgess, George Henry, 1931-1905., Richardson, Edward., and Sprague, George H.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, Hydraulic mining, Placer mining, and Women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Watercolor painting of gold mining on the Mokelumne River in California and a promissory note].

10.
J.C. Tracy and myself "prospecting"

Creator:
Cooper, George Victor, 1810-1878, artist
Published / Created:
[1853]
Call Number:
WA Prints 438
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
R.T. Young
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Letts, J. M. (John M.) and Tracy, J. C.
Subject (Topic):
Prospecting, Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, Gold discoveries, Goldmining, Gold rushes, and Frontier & pioneer life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > J.C. Tracy and myself "prospecting"