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.
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
Postcard from a photograph by P.E. Larson depicts four dismounted men and four burros at a summit in the Funeral Mountains; looking out over Death Valley below
Description:
Title from caption in lower right of image., Imprint from recto, lower left., and Recto, lower left: No. 4129.
Publisher:
Palm Studio
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada, Goldfield, Funeral Mountains (Calif.), and Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Print depicts the Gold Dirt mining camp near Rollingsville in Gilpin County, Colorado; in foreground, left, two saddled horses; foreground center, two men standing near two others; middle ground, center, mill and other buildings; background, mountains and sky
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
E. Sachse Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado and Gilpin County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Rollins, John Q. A., 1816-1894. (John Quincy Adams), and Gold Dirt Mine
Subject (Topic):
Gold, Milling, Gilpin County, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
A sheet with 12 images of various elements of Gold Rush mining operations, each with title and letterpress explanation of the activity depicted. The image for "Rocking the cradle" includes a Chinese worker. On the sheet's right side is a column listing mining locations
Alternative Title:
Methods of mining
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet., Some images are signed C. Nahl; some are signed T.C. Boyd., and "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Jas M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California."
Publisher:
Published by J.M. Hutchings
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Mining engineering, Gold miners, Miners, Gold discoveries, and Chinese
