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
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
[1852]
Call Number:
WA Prints +121
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +80: Some tears and stains. On sheet 27 x 41 cm., BEIN WA Prints +121: On sheet 36 x 53 cm., Coordinates not present and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
[1852]
Call Number:
WA Prints +80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +80: Some tears and stains. On sheet 27 x 41 cm., BEIN WA Prints +121: On sheet 36 x 53 cm., Coordinates not present and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
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 and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
Description:
Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
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 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 his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
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 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., Title from caption below image., Above caption title: B: Bromide Flat. C: Cloride Flat. P: Pogonip Flat., and "Entered according the act of Congress in the year 1869 by Samuel C. Lewis in the clerk's office for the Northern District of California."
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
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 small indigenous family group of three children and three adults in the right foreground
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 880wa: Mounted on board 70 x 101 cm. Edges of print covered by mat. and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
H.S. Crocker & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Wagon trains, Indians of North America, and Frontier and pioneer life