Relief shown pictorially., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., The artist's last name is spelled incorrectly; the fifth character is a 'b' superimposed with a 'y'., and BEIN WA Prints 431 copy 2: Lower right corner chewed.
Publisher:
Lith. Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
Grass Valley (Calif.), California, and Grass Valley.
Relief shown pictorially., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., The artist's last name is spelled incorrectly; the fifth character is a 'b' superimposed with a 'y'., and BEIN WA Prints 431 copy 2: Lower right corner chewed.
Publisher:
Lith. Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
Grass Valley (Calif.), California, and Grass Valley.
Title from caption below image., "His confession & evidence proved him guilty of the murder of Chas. Moore, Sheriff of Yuba County, -- of the murderous assault & robbery of Mr. Jansen in this city, & of the Captain of the brig Jas. Caskie in this harbor -- of the robbery of the custom house at Monterey -- besides numerous other robberies & murders. No criminal was ever more daring or successful -- more reckless or cold blooded. He was a Sydney convict, transported for life for forgery. His last words were 'I die resigned -- my sentence is just.'", and "View taken from the storeship Byron. Foot of Market St. wharf San Francisco."
On the right side of the sheet are scenes of California's Gold Rush past, including migration, prospecting, and men disembarking from a sailing ship; on the left are scenes of the state's increasingly settled present, including a stagecoach, agriculture, a public school, and a crowded steamship at a crowded dock. An incongruous elephant in the top center may be a reference to the phrase "seeing the elephant" about overcoming hardship
Alternative Title:
Past and present of California
Description:
Title from caption at bottom of image. and "11"--Upper right corner.
Print shows a resort hotel with Victorian-style building, park, recreation area (people strolling, playing croquet, and tennis), and club house; path leading to river and boathouse; ocean and beach in distance
Alternative Title:
Riverside House and cottages, Santa Cruz, Open the year round by the day or month, free carriages to the house from all trains and steamers, and First-class in every particular, terms moderate, send for circular and particulars
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Chas. W. Saalburg--lith--S.F.", and Local Santa Cruz advertising matter surrounds image.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
c1852.
Call Number:
WA Prints +445
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
General view of Sonora showing mining encampment
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +445: Four buildings numbered in manuscript with manuscript legend to the right of title., Title from caption., and Drawn by G.H. Goddard.
Publisher:
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by G.H. Goddard in the clerks office of the dist. court of the Northern Dist. of Calafornia [sic] and Pollard & Brittons lith., Merchant Str
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., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
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
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., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
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