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.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Mining camps, and Miners
Snapshots of a westward rail journey in 1892, possibly taken by someone traveling with a group of Freemasons. Men in masonic caps and regalia appear in several of the images, and one is captioned "Group of citizens (at Station to see Sir Kts.)". The p...
Description:
Photographer unidentified.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, West (U.S.), Missouri river, Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Pullman (Chicago, Ill.), Omaha (Neb.), Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Colo.), Gunnison (Colo.), and Marshall Pass (Colo.)
Subject (Topic):
Railroads, Railroad travel, Freemasons, Travelers, Railroad stations, Railroad bridges, Frontier and pioneer life, and Prairies
Society of California Pioneers of New England, creator
Published / Created:
[1898?]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc72 898so
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Society of California Pioneers of New England membership certificate illustrated with scenes of California; View of San Francisco in 1849; Sutter's Mill; Sutter's Fort; Mining scene in early days, and other vignettes
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 898so: On sheet 73 x 57 cm. Certificate filled out in manuscript: Simon Mulligan Arrived in California March 13, 1850, having sailed from Boston in ship Argonaut, Oct. 30, 1849, making the passage around Cape Horn in 134 days. Places...
Publisher:
Society of California Pioneers of New England
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Society of California Pioneers of New England and Argonaut (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life and Description and travel
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat a...
Description:
Title from printed caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Print depicts the western slope of the Treasure Hill mining district in Nevada between the towns of Hamilton, on the left, and Sherman Town, on the right; lists and locates 190 numbered locations on the western slope
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc69 869Le: Paper sheet backed with linen sheet.
Publisher:
Litho. Britton & Rey, S.F.
Subject (Geographic):
White Pine Mining District (Nev.), Hamilton (Nev.), Shermantown (Nev.), Nevada, and White Pine County
Subject (Topic):
Silver mines and mining and Frontier and pioneer life
Etching and drypoint print shows a wagon train; a covered wagon pulled by team of oxen in foreground, with driver waving whip walking beside, and other wagons stretch into distance, winding along trail across image. Two scouts on horseback in middle d...
Alternative Title:
Emigrant train
Description:
Title from Borein, Etchings of the west, 1950. Alternate title "Emigrant Train" from Galvin's catalog of Borein's etchings, no. 148.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Wagon trains, Covered wagons, and Ox teams
Print depicts a long train of an ox-drawn wagons stretching in an "s" curve from the low mountains in the background through the flat middle-ground to the foreground where three scouts are on horseback in the left foreground and all are watched by a s...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 880wa: Mounted on board 70 x 101 cm. Edges of print covered by mat.
Publisher:
H.S. Crocker & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Wagon trains, Indians of North America, and Frontier and pioneer life
