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1. California gold diggers : mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
- Published / Created:
- [between 1848 and 1850?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +204
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are fighting; miners using various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles; mining camp and rolling hills in distance
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +204: On sheet 29 x 37 cm. and At foot of print: 370.
- Publisher:
- Kelloggs and Comstock and Ensign and Thayer
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and Sacramento River (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold miners, Gold panning, Indians of North America, African Americans, and Gold discoveries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > California gold diggers : mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River
2. California gold diggers. Mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Kelloggs & Comstock, lithographer
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are fighting; miners using various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles; mining camp and rolling hills in distance
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +205: On sheet 29 x 37 cm. and At foot of print: 370.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Sacramento River (Calif.), and Sacramento River.
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold miners, Gold panning, African Americans, Indians of North America, and Gold discoveries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > California gold diggers. Mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River. [graphic]
3. Miners at work with long toms
- Published / Created:
- [between 1850 and 1859?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 409
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A sheet divided by a "frame" of trees into a top image, two lower side images, and a lower blank space for a written message. In the top image, a group of miners in a forest clearing work at two "long tom" sluices spanning a stream, with a few small buildings in the background. The lower side images consist of a standing prospector, equipped with shovel, pickaxe, and pan, and a seated Native American
- Description:
- Title from caption below top image.
- Publisher:
- Justh, Quirot & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, Gold panning, and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miners at work with long toms
4. The miners
- Creator:
- Quirot & Co., lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [between 1850 and 1852?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 412
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A central image of a group of miners is surrounded by an elaborate frame of leaves and sticks with four additional, smaller images enclosed in cartouches along the four sides of the main image. The central image, which has the caption title "The miners," shows a group of ten men prospecting at a makeshift sluice beside a small body of water in a denuded landscape. The cartouche image at top, which has caption title "Sutter's fort," shows the fort established by John Sutter; the cartouche image on left, which is untitled, shows two miners outside a tent; the cartouche image on right, which is untitled, shows three men with backpacks and pickaxes pausing in their trek; and the cartouche image at bottom, with caption title "Mokelumne Hill," shows a hilly, grassy landscape with only a few trees and a small town or encampment at its center
- Alternative Title:
- Miners (no. 4)
- Description:
- Title from caption below primary image., The firm of Quirot & Co. was succeeded by Britton & Rey in 1852. See Last, J. The color explosion, 2005, page 198., and "No. 4"--Lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Lith. & published by Quirot & Co., corn'r Calif'a & Montg'y Sts., S. Francisco
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Sutter’s Fort (Sacramento, Calif.), and Mokelumne Hill (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, Gold panning, and Gold discoveries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The miners
5. Lower Bar, Mokelumne River
- Creator:
- Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1850]
- Call Number:
- BrSide4o Zc72 850taz 02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lithograph shows two European American men in the foreground panning for gold in a shallow river in a narrow valley; other miners and tents are visable on the wooded hillsides
- Description:
- BEIN BrSide4o Zc72 850taz 02: On sheet 11.5 x 17.5 cm. and Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Geo. P. Putnam
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and Mokelumne River (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold panning
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lower Bar, Mokelumne River
