Unused pictorial lettersheet with four illustrations. The first image, "Starting," shows three miners and a pack mule happily leaving a log cabin. "Not even the colour" shows the three miners at the gold diggings, finding nothing. "The end of the mule" shows the miners trying to hold on to the mule's lead rope as he falls down a mountainside. The fourth image, "Returning," shows the miners in tattered clothing returning to the log cabin
Description:
"5"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, and Miners
Pictorial lettersheet with two lithograph views, the first depicts miners drinking and playing cards in a mining camp bar room, while the second view depicts miners at work with sluice called "Long Tom.'
Alternative Title:
Long Tom
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 407: Imperfect? Integral blank leaf wanting, although Baird makes no mention of this leaf., Caption title., Issued with integral blank leaf., Upper right corner: "10.", and "The artwork appears to be by J.D. Borthwick, a Scottish artist ..."--Sloan.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Mining camps, and Miners
Unused pictorial letter sheet. Upper illustration entitled "Miners" shows Chinese doing daily chores and eating outside camp tents. Lower illustration entitled "Gamblers" shows Chinese gambling around a table. Miners is a mirror image of an 1857 lithograph by J.D. Borthwick entitled "Chinese camp in the mines."
Description:
Title from caption at top of images.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, and Gambling
Two scenes of mining life. In the top scene, three miners, one of whom may be African-American, sit around a table in a cabin while a fourth miner weighs a small amount of gold. In the bottom scene, miners and their pack animals walk along a hilly trail and beside an enormous tree
Description:
Title from captions at bottom of each image. and "7"--Upper right corner.
A sheet divided by a "frame" of trees into a top image, two lower side images, and a lower blank space for a written message. In the top image, a group of miners in a forest clearing work at two "long tom" sluices spanning a stream, with a few small buildings in the background. The lower side images consist of a standing prospector, equipped with shovel, pickaxe, and pan, and a seated Native American
Description:
Title from caption below top image.
Publisher:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, Gold panning, and Indians of North America
Printed area measures 25.0 x 18.6 cm. and Vertical print shows six vignettes of a miner's life: A night in the log cabin; Going to work; New diggings struck; Camping out; Hole gives out; Next day.
Publisher:
Lith. & Pub. by Britton & Rey cor. Montg. & Comm. Sts. S.F.
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Miners, Gold discoveries, Mineral industries, Labor, and Gold mines and mining
Horizontal print has four vignettes of camp life during the Gold Rush. At upper left: "A Sunday's Amusements" (two men doing laundry). At upper right: "A Daily Pleasure" (two men cooking a meal). At lower left: "Occupation for Rainy Days" (two men mending their clothes and boots). At lower right: "A Pleasant Surprise" (two men discover a Grizzly Bear in their tent, warming by their fire).
Description:
Title from caption at top of image. and Printed area measures 19.7 x 24.8 cm.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Britton & Rey Cornr. Montgomery & California Sts. S.-Francisco
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Miners, Social conditions, Gold mines and mining, Gold discoveries, and Mineral industries
A central image of a group of miners is surrounded by an elaborate frame of leaves and sticks with four additional, smaller images enclosed in cartouches along the four sides of the main image. The central image, which has the caption title "The miners," shows a group of ten men prospecting at a makeshift sluice beside a small body of water in a denuded landscape. The cartouche image at top, which has caption title "Sutter's fort," shows the fort established by John Sutter; the cartouche image on left, which is untitled, shows two miners outside a tent; the cartouche image on right, which is untitled, shows three men with backpacks and pickaxes pausing in their trek; and the cartouche image at bottom, with caption title "Mokelumne Hill," shows a hilly, grassy landscape with only a few trees and a small town or encampment at its center
Alternative Title:
Miners (no. 4)
Description:
Title from caption below primary image., The firm of Quirot & Co. was succeeded by Britton & Rey in 1852. See Last, J. The color explosion, 2005, page 198., and "No. 4"--Lower right corner.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Quirot & Co., corn'r Calif'a & Montg'y Sts., S. Francisco
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sutter’s Fort (Sacramento, Calif.), and Mokelumne Hill (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, Gold panning, 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:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Quirot & Co. corner of Montgomery & California 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
