- 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 gentlemen in top hats sit at a table with several miners, some looking forlorn, while other miners stand around watching
- 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
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- 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 gentlemen in top hats sit at a table with several miners, some looking forlorn, while other miners stand around watching
- 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
- Creator:
- Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899, compiler
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1874]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 626
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
- Description:
- Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December., Captions in English., Captions in the negative., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger., and Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].