- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +441
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and San Francisco.
- Subject (Name):
- King, James, 1822-1856 and Casey, James P.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey : San Francisco, May 14th, 1856
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1848 and 1850?]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > California gold diggers : mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
- Creator:
- Beutler (Artist), artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1850 and 1859?]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of Chinese men in traditional attire stand and sit around a table, smoking and apparently gambling, with two Chinese women standing in a nearby doorway
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Fishbourne & Co. lithog.rs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and San Francisco
- Subject (Topic):
- Chinese and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chinese life!!! : Dupont Street : San-Francisco, Cal
- Creator:
- Hoskins, Gayle (Gayle Porter), 1887-1962, artist
- Published / Created:
- [195-?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces an original painting by Gayle P. Hoskins showing an imaginary convergence of battle events in a panoramic, birdseye-view, including Crazy Horse's encircling maneuver and Chief Gall's converging attack from the south
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Signed in the image: Gayle Hoskins 1953., and Text below caption: Reprinted from The Custer myth by Colonel W.A. Graham, copyright by the Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, publishers.
- Publisher:
- Stackpole Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Montana.
- Subject (Name):
- Custer, George A. 1839-1876 (George Armstrong),, Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877, Gall, Dakota chief, 1840-1894, and Custer, George A. 1839-1876. (George Armstrong),
- Subject (Topic):
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Lakota Indians, Nothern Cheyenne Indians, and Arapaho Indians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Custer's last fight : the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876
- Creator:
- Hoskins, Gayle (Gayle Porter), 1887-1962, artist
- Published / Created:
- [195-?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +142
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces an original painting by Gayle P. Hoskins showing an imaginary convergence of battle events in a panoramic, birdseye-view, including Crazy Horse's encircling maneuver and Chief Gall's converging attack from the south
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Signed in the image: Gayle Hoskins 1953., and Text below caption: Reprinted from The Custer myth by Colonel W.A. Graham, copyright by the Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, publishers.
- Publisher:
- Stackpole Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Montana.
- Subject (Name):
- Custer, George A. 1839-1876 (George Armstrong),, Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877, Gall, Dakota chief, 1840-1894, and Custer, George A. 1839-1876. (George Armstrong),
- Subject (Topic):
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Lakota Indians, Nothern Cheyenne Indians, and Arapaho Indians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Custer's last fight : the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876
6.
- Creator:
- Adams, Cassilly, 1843-1921, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1896]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lithograph after the Cassilly Adams painting of 1888 that was copied in paint by F. Otto Becker in 1896 and later made into lithographic prints as an advertising promotion for Anheuser Busch Brewing Association. Print shows Custer, standing, saber raised overhead in his right hand and a pistol held by its barrel in his left, in the battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. In addition to Custer, the painting portrays his brother Thomas Ward Custer, Rain In The Face, William W. Cooke, George W. Yates, Henry Armstrong Reed, William Van W. Reily, and Algernon E. Smith. Below image: some persons in image named or described
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Elephant Folio Zc43 896ad Copy 1: Accompanied by: a label with text: Loaned to Co. K 26th Inf. M.S.G. by 1st Lieut. John M. Sweeney Co. K 26th Inf. M.S.G., and a clipping from New York Times with a picture of Colonel S. R. H. (Tommy) Tompkins., BEIN BrSides Elephant Folio Zc43 896ad Copy 2: Imperfect: sheet below image trimmed; wantiing title, imprint, attributions, copyright statement and index; on sheet 61 x 95 cm and mounted on board of same dimensions., BEIN BrSides Elephant Folio Zc43 896ad Copy 3: Imperfect: chipped. 78 x 103 cm, mounted on linen., Title from caption below image., and Below image, at lower left: Entered according to act of Congress by Adolphus Bush March 30th 1896 in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
- Publisher:
- Anheuser Busch Brewing Association and Milwaukee Litho. Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Custer, George A. (1839-1876) (George Armstrong0,, Custer, Thomas Ward, 1845-1876, Rain in the Face, approximately 1835-1905, Cooke, William W., -1876, Reed, Henry Armstrong, 1858-1876, Reilly, William V. W., 1853-1876, Smith, A. E. 1842-1876 (Algernon Emory),, Yates, George W., 1843-1876, and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th
- Subject (Topic):
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Lakota Indians, Cheyenne Indians, and Arapaho Indians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Custer's last fight : the original painting has been presented to the Seventh Regiment U.S. Cavalry by Anheuser Busch Brewing Association, St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A.
- Creator:
- Hill, Thomas, 1829-1908, artist
- Published / Created:
- , [1969?]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc19 Un3h 969hi
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- The print reproduces Thomas Hill's painting "Driving the last spike" above a key to seventy-one of the persons represented in the painting; also, a short essay by the historian Richard Dillon
- Description:
- At foot of sheet: Published by The Nut Tree to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the "Driving of the last spike," Nut Tree, California, 95688.
- Publisher:
- The Nut Tree
- Subject (Geographic):
- Utah
- Subject (Name):
- Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Railroads, and Transcontinental railroad
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Driving the last spike : May 10, 1869
- Creator:
- Hill, Thomas, 1829-1908, artist
- Published / Created:
- , [1969?]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc19 Un3h 969hi
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- The print reproduces Thomas Hill's painting "Driving the last spike" above a key to seventy-one of the persons represented in the painting; also, a short essay by the historian Richard Dillon
- Description:
- At foot of sheet: Published by The Nut Tree to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the "Driving of the last spike," Nut Tree, California, 95688.
- Publisher:
- The Nut Tree
- Subject (Geographic):
- Utah
- Subject (Name):
- Central Pacific Railroad Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Railroads, and Transcontinental railroad
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Driving the last spike : May 10, 1869
9.
- Creator:
- Britton & Rey, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 402 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
- Publisher:
- Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Britton & Rey, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 402 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
- Publisher:
- Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]