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1.
Celestial empire in California

Published / Created:
[185-]
Call Number:
WA Prints 400
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 litho...
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Celestial empire in California

2.
San-Francisco

Creator:
Rouargue, Adolphe, 1810-1884, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1860?]
Call Number:
BrSide4o Zc72 850roz 01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Panoramic view of San Francisco looking out to Yerba Buena Island (also known as Treasure Island).
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc72 850roz 01: On sheet 18.6 x 27.7 cm.
Publisher:
Furne
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), Yerba Buena Island (Calif.), California, San Francisco., and Yerba Buena Island.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > San-Francisco

3.
A prospecting party

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints 395
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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...
Description:
"5"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, and Miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A prospecting party

4.
Tremendous excitement! : Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hung

Creator:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Published / Created:
[August, 1851]
Call Number:
WA Prints 386
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tremendous excitement! : Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hung by the vigilance committee on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o'clock p.m. in the presence of fifteen thousand people

5.
The first trial & execution in S. Francisco on the night of 10th of June, at 2 o'clock

Creator:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Published / Created:
[1851]
Call Number:
WA Prints 410
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
First trial and execution in San Francisco
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Pub. and Lith. Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, John, 1815 or 1816-1851
Subject (Topic):
Hanging and Death and burial
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The first trial & execution in S. Francisco on the night of 10th of June, at 2 o'clock

6.
View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill [cartographic

Creator:
Boosey, W.
Published / Created:
1851
Call Number:
BrSides Zc72 851coz 01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Abstract:
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...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 851coz 01: On sheet 36 x 74 cm.
Publisher:
Ackermann & Co., M & N. Hanhart, lith. printers)
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > View of the town and harbour of San Francisco, California, from the Signal Hill [cartographic material]

7.
San Francisco, 1852 [graphic]

Published / Created:
1852.
Call Number:
WA Prints +87
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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, ...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +87: On sheet 37 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Henry Bill
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > San Francisco, 1852 [graphic]

8.
Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing

Creator:
Britton & Rey, lithographer
Published / Created:
1856]
Call Number:
WA Prints 402 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886."
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):
Crime and Vigilance committees
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]

9.
Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing

Creator:
Britton & Rey, lithographer
Published / Created:
1856]
Call Number:
WA Prints 402 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886."
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):
Crime and Vigilance committees
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]

10.
Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco -- : this is to certify that -- is a member --

Creator:
Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878
Published / Created:
[approximately 1856]
Call Number:
WA Prints +451
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Certificate proper is bordered with ornamental images such as the Eye of Providence at top of sheet, a blonde shield-maiden with serpentine sword in her right hand and a triangular shield with "numquam" inscribed on it in her left; the image of blind ...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +451: On sheet 61 x 48 cm. Autograph signatures by Wm. T. Coleman, Isaac Bluxome Jr., Wm. Meyer, and Charles Boune. Handwritten numeral "3461" in space for membership number. Stamped with the 1856 Committee medallion.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
Subject (Topic):
Vigilance committees and Crime
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco -- : this is to certify that -- is a member --

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