- 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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- 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
- Creator:
- South Dakota. Department of Immigration, creator
- Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print advertising opportunities for homes and land in the new state of South Dakota and offers official information from the Commissioner of Immigration in Aberdeen. Primary image is a female figure wearing a tiara labeled "South Dakota" and holding a paper in her left hand that reads "free homes" and in her right hand is a scroll showing images and names of public institutions; at her feet, a book open to the "Record of Progress" in the territory and state of South Dakota, from "permanent white settlement" in 1856 to the first state legislature in 1890. Text below title includes reference to the opening of the Sioux Reservation to homestead settlement
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Zc35 890soz 01: Mounted on linen sheet 74 x 54 cm. and Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- F. H. Hagerty, Commissioner of Immigration and Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- South Dakota and Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dakota Indians, Land tenure, Migration, Internal, Real property, Race relations, and Emigration and immigration
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota
- Creator:
- Von Schmidt, Eric, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1986 and 1989]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc43 986vo
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Lithograph reproduces Von Schmidt's painting that depicts the battle at Little Bighorn; in foreground center U.S. soldier holds up regimental flag surrounded by dismounted troopers under attack by mounted Native Americans; villages and natural landscape in distance. The lyrics to Garryowen, the 7th U.S. Cavalry's regimental song, are printed below the image
- Description:
- In facsimile of artist's hand below image:On left, artist's proof; on right: for the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library / Eric Von Schmidt '89., Title from caption below image., and Within image of original painting in lower right, signed: Von Schmidt, 1971-76.
- Publisher:
- Minglewood Press
- Subject (Name):
- Custer, George A. 1839-1876 (George Armstrong),
- Subject (Topic):
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Here fell Custer
- Published / Created:
- [1936?]
- Call Number:
- PLAYING CARDS GEN 933
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 933: Cary's original reference number: F-273. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from case., Date of publication from Keller., French suit system., Composition of deck: 52 (A, K, Q, J, 10-2), joker, advertisement card., Aces indicated by "1"., Courts: B. P. GRIMAUD // PARIS., R-Roi (king); D-Dame (queen); V-Valet (jack)., and Issued in tuck case, blue: OLYMPIC / [olympic rings] / GRIMAUD / PARIS / INDEXEES 53 CARTES.
- Publisher:
- B. P. Grimaud
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Olympic : indexées 53 cartes
- Creator:
- Polhemus, J. D. L., artist
- Published / Created:
- [1847?]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc50 847pp
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces a drawing by Jason D.L. Polhemus of New York that depicts the United States Army First Division of Volunteers encamped in a plain below mountains; troops mustered by unit are marked with numerals 1-10 in image and named in list below title caption. The top half of the image is cloudy sky above mountains
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Zc50 847pp copy 2: Imperfect: Sheet split in two pieces between image and caption; each piece mounted on paper boards separately. Image mounted on board 45 x 78 cm; caption mounted on board 14 x 78 cm., Title from caption printed below image., Below caption title: Fig. 1, N.Y.V.; fig. 2, 1st Penns.; fig. 3, Massts.; fig. 4, 2nd Ohio; fig. 5, S.C.; fig. 6, 2nd Penns.; fig. 7, 4th Ohio; fig. 8, Geoa.; fig. 9, Illinois, Tenne., Keny., & Inda.; fig. 10, Santa Anna's hacienda & quarters of General Patterson & staff; 1st Brigade under command of Col. F.M. Wynkoop; 2d Brigade under command of Col. Chas Brough., and Additional text below image: This picture is most respectfully dedicated to Maj. Gen. Patterson by his humble servant, J.D.L. Polhemus of the New York Volunteers.
- Publisher:
- F. Kuhl's lith press
- Subject (Name):
- Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881
- Subject (Topic):
- Cerro Gordo, Battle of, Mexico, 1847 and Mexican War, 1846-1848
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The First Division Volunteers encamped at Elencerro, Mexico, under Command of Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson
- Creator:
- Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1901]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of the 1901 painting by Charles M. Russell; depicts a group of Native Americans moving camp; women with children on horseback pulling travois from left to right
- Description:
- BEIN Broadsides Zc12 901ru: On sheet 22.1 x 29.6 cm. and Title from caption printed below image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Travois, Indian women, and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > When the trail was long between camps