Hand colored woodcut illustrating miners bringing gold dust into the C.A. Cook and Company bank in Denver, Colorado; interior view shows signs for C.A Cook & Company, Butterfield Overland Dispatch Company Express Office; miners, tellers, scales
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc49 866da: On sheet 19.0 x 29.3 cm. and Title from caption below image.
A sheet showing 5 vignettes, 2 of which have captions. At upper left is an allegorical female figure of Agriculture; at upper right is an allegorical female figure representing the United States; at lower left is a clipper ship at sea in full sail with an American flag, with caption title "Challenze, Californier clipper," probably intended to be "Challenge, California clipper"; at lower right is a sidwheel steamship at sea with all sails raised, with caption title "Baltic, Liverpool steamer"; in the center, dividing the 2 sides of the sheet, is a long vertical image of miners working in a deep mine shaft, probably representing a California gold mine
Alternative Title:
Challenge, Californier clipper and Challenge, California clipper
Description:
Title from captions below 2 of sheet's 5 vignettes.
Lithograph shows hydraulic gold mining operation on the Georgetown divide in El Dorado County, California. Jets of pressurized water hit the bare cliffs
Description:
BEIN Broadsides4to Zc72 880bi: On sheet 22.7 x 24.5 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
California Water and Mining Company and David H. Gildersleeve
Print reproduces an original satirical lithograph done by Nathaniel Currier; shows a walking man carrying all manner of implements for gold hunting; to left of center, directional sign: to St. Louis 350 miles, to California, 1700 Ms.
Alternative Title:
I neither borrow nor lend
Description:
At foot of sheet: 370.
Publisher:
Kelloggs & Comstock 150 Fulton Street, N.Y. & 136 Main Street, Hartford and Ensign & Thayer 12 Exchange Street, Buffalo
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
