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
Pictorial lettersheet view of crowd watching hangings carried out by the first (San Francisco) vigilance committee of 1851
Alternative Title:
Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities
Description:
Title from text printed below image. and Spelling of "Furniture" on sign in this image differentiates it from a variant in the Robert B. Honeyman collection (BANC PIC 1963.002:151) with spelling "Fourniture."
Publisher:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.
Subject (Topic):
Hanging, Lynching, Vigilance committees, Hangings (Executions), and Lynchings
View from Signal Hill looking towards Yerba Buena harbor at left and Montgomery Street at right; south bay in distance. Several figures, campers with tents, and signal building in foreground; numerous ships in bay; wharves and densely packed buildings of city to right
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 851coz 01: On sheet 36 x 74 cm., Title from caption below image., and Low angle view.
Publisher:
Ackermann & Co., M & N. Hanhart, lith. printers)
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Print shows a map-like view of San Francisco looking toward North Bay on the left and toward Rincon Point on the right; with significant buildings and locations identified numerically: North Bay, Contra Costa, Yerba Buena Island, California Exchange, Plaza, Leanard's Warehouse, Rincon Point, Market Street Pier, California Street, Central Wharf, Catholic Church, Marine Telegraph, and Anjill Island. Unindexed, Telegraph Hill on left
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +87: On sheet 37 x 49 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Henry Bill
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
A sheet with two vignettes. The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front," shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration, with caption "Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe June 14th" ("Committe" having dropped the final "e"), shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet., The phrase "Daguer'pe. by Vance" appears in lower left corner, suggesting that at least one of the images, and perhaps both, was drawn from a daguerreotype by early California photographer Robert H. Vance., Unnumbered pages 2-3 blank., and "Constitution and address of the Vigilance Committee ... adopted, May 15th, 1856"--Unnumbered page 4.
Publisher:
Britton and Rey
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
