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1. Wagon train
- Creator:
- Borein, Edward, 1872-1945
- Published / Created:
- [between 1907 and 1945]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +194
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 distance, right
- 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. and Signed below image on lower right: Edward Borein. Small image of man on horseback below image on lower left.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life, Wagon trains, Covered wagons, and Ox teams
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wagon train
2. Our family : with a glimpse of their pioneer life
- Creator:
- Horton, Emily McCowen, 1841-
- Published / Created:
- 1922.
- Call Number:
- Zc10 922ho
- Image Count:
- 29
- Description:
- BEIN: Original wrappers. (Zc10 922ho)
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Missouri.
- Subject (Name):
- McCown family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life and Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Our family : with a glimpse of their pioneer life
3. Wagon train
- Published / Created:
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 880wa
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wagon train
4. Society of California Pioneers of New England : this is to certify that [blank] and that he is an honored member of this society
- Creator:
- 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 for signatures of President and Secretary are signed: Chas. A. Dole and Stephen W. Foster. Dated in manuscript: January 24, 1898. and Title from caption.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Society of California Pioneers of New England : this is to certify that [blank] and that he is an honored member of this society
5. View of the west side of Treasure Hill
- Creator:
- Lewis, Samuel C., artist
- Published / Created:
- [1869] and ©1869.
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc69 869Le
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > View of the west side of Treasure Hill
6. Bar room in the mines, Long Tom
- Published / Created:
- c185-?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 407
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bar room in the mines, Long Tom
7. The last war-whoop
- Creator:
- Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [c1856]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 856mc
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last war-whoop
8. The pursuit
- Creator:
- Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [1856]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 856md
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The pursuit
9. Sonora from the north
- Creator:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- G.S. Wells and Lith. Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sonora (Calif.) and California
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sonora from the north
