Cartes-de-visite photographs created primarily by photographers in San Francisco and northern California, ca. 1855-1895. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting children, women, and men, in single, couple, and group sittings. Individuals in the images comprise various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Asian American and African American persons. The portraits also include persons with unique physical features, including midgets, dwarves, and giants. Occupations and group memberships represented in the portraits include butchers, circus performers, freemason, miners, musicians, sailors, and soldiers. Other images include portraits of dogs, and copy photographs of drawings, paintings, and dolls, Portraits of identified individuals include Baby Belmont, Frederick Coombs, Tom Coughlan, Tony Denier, Issac Sherwood Halsey, Little Clara Jenkins, Henrietta Lichau, and Eugenie Olanie. Other identified individuals include: Mollie Brown, a bareback somersault horse rider; A. Kerpen, a man with an eight-foot long beard; William Ingraham Kip, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California; and two scholars in academic gowns, presumably from the University of California, George F. Stone and viticulturist Emmett Rixford, Individual photographers with galleries located in San Francisco include: T. A. Brown, John M. Bryan, Alexander Edouart, Sr., Oscar Foss, John D. Godeus, Thomas Houseworth, Benjamin Franklin Howland, J. Jackson, John Lucas Kingsley, Henry Kruse, Charles Lainer, H. Luther, Charles Albert Marston, George Daniels Morse, Eadweard Muybridge, Silas Wright Selleck, Jacob Shew, William Shew, Joseph Trinidad Silva, Hector William Vaughn, Carleton E. Watkins, John A. Winberg, and Lai Yong, Corporate photographic galleries and partnerships located in San Francisco include: Bayley & Winter, Bradley & Rulofson, Brown & Otto, Chalmers & Wolfe, City Mart Photographic Gallery, Currier & Winter, Edouart & Cobb, Hamilton & Kellogg, Hoebel & Luther, Houston's Excelsior Gallery, I. W. Taber & Company, Lawrence & Houseworth, New York Gallery, Peoples Art Gallery, Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, and Wise & Prindle, Individual photographers in other locations throughout California include: Joseph P. Lowe of Auburn; H. H. Frye of Chico; George W. Valleau of Colusa; H. H. Halsey of Dutch Flat; Amasa Plummer Flaglor of Eureka; Ellison Lassell Crawford of Georgetown; S. Johnson of Gilroy; Lewis Jackson Stinson of Marysville; Edward Abraham Kusel of Oroville; L. Dowe and George Ross of Petaluma; Flave H. Gaines of Red Bluff; A. P. Bailey and John A. Todd of Sacramento; James Atkins Clayton of San Jose; H. Schoene of Santa Clara; John E. D. Baldwin of Santa Cruz; John Pitcher Spooner of Stockton; Murry Dunham and James Girard Smith of Vallejo; Issac Sherwood Halsey of Volcano; and Skelton Sanford Noble and B. F. Stevens from unidentified locations, and Photographic galleries and partnerships in other locations throughout California include: Mains & Von Hasseln of Camptonville; Bluett & Fardon and Dunham & Lathrop of Oakland; Sanders & Stinson of Marysville; and Abell & Welsh of Roseburg, Oregon
Description:
Digital version available; and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Abell, Frank George, Jr., 1844-1910., Bailey, A. P., Baldwin, John E. D., Bayley, Wilbur Fisk., Bluett, William H., Bradley, Henry William, 1813-1891., Brown, T. A., photographer., Bryan, John M., Chalmers, James Calder, Jr., Clayton, James Atkins, 1831-1896., Cobb, David., Coombs, Frederick, 1803-1874., Coughlan, Tom., Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895., Currier, Amos., Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917., Dunham, Allen Murray, ca. 1834-ca. 1924., Dunham, Murry., Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892., Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886., Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918., Foss, Oscar., Frye, H. H., Gaines, Flave H., Godeus, John D., Halsey, Henry H., Halsey, Isaac Sherwood, 1828-1895., Hamilton, Charles F., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., Jenkins, Clara., Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875., Johnston, Amasa Park, ca. 1837-1931., Kellogg, Andrew J., Kingsley, John Lucas, ca. 1939-1869., Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893., Kruse, Henry., Kusel, Edward Abraham., Lainer, Charles., Lathrop, Frank Henry., Lawrence, George S., Lichau, Henrietta., Lowe, Joseph P., Mains, James Riley., Marston, Charles Albert., Mautz, Carl., Morse, George Daniels., Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904., Noble, Skelton Sanford., Olanie, Eugenie., Prindle, Edward H., Rixford, Emmett H., Ross, George, 1832-1893., Rulofson, William Herman, 1826-1878., Sanders, Stephen Poole., Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885., Shew, Jacob, 1826-1879., Shew, William J., 1820-1903., Silva, Joseph Trinidad., Smith, James Girard, 1836-, Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917., Stevens, B. F., Stinson, Lewis Jackson., Stone, George F., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Todd, John A., 1827-1899., Valleau, George W., Vaughn, Hector William., Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916., Welsh, John Oliver, ca. 1840-ca. 1913., Winberg, John A., Winter, Daniel., Winter, Robert, ca. 1821-1893., Wise, James H., 1812-, Wolfe, Samuel Augustus., Yong, Lai., Abell & Welsh., Bayley & Winter., Bluett & Fardon., Bradley & Rulofson., Brown & Otto., City Mart Photographic Gallery., Currier & Winter., Dunham & Lathrop., Edouart & Cobb., Foss & Halsey., Freemasons, Hamilton & Kellogg., Hoebel & Luther., Houston's Excelsior Gallery., I. W. Taber & Company., Mains & Von Hasseln., Peoples Art Gallery., and Sanders & Stinson.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Photographers, Circus performers, Dolls, Dwarfs (Persons), Giants (Folklore), Miners, Musicians, Sailors, Soldiers, and Tall people
A satirical look at the characters in Gold Rush California, including miners, gamblers, charlatans, and other get-rich-quick schemers. Includes scenes of a miner carrying/wearing all his worldy goods, an exorbitant restaurant bill at Delmonico, an ersatz Jenny Lind in performance, and a central group of both men and women jostling their way into a mine
Alternative Title:
Departure for Eldorado
Description:
Title from sign above mine entrance at center of image.
Publisher:
Lith. by Quirot
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Miners, Internal migrants, Gold discoveries, and Wealth
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Engraved title page for Opera Omnia., In text: Francofurti; Apud joh. justum Erythropilum [Johannes Justus]., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Apud joh.justus Erythropilum
Subject (Name):
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
Subject (Topic):
Chemistry, Chemists, Coats of arms, Scientific equipment, Miners, Plants, Wheelbarrows, Fish, and Snakes
Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Four vignettes illustrate two men's experience with gold prospecting, from the promise of the early trek, to the excitement of a pan of gold, to the doldrums of a worthless pit, to the final bedraggled return to civilization
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 428: State A, with "9" in upper right corner., BEIN WA Prints 429: State B, with no number in corner., Title from caption above image., and Known to exist in two different states. State A has "9" printed in the upper right corner. State B has no such printed number.
Publisher:
Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Miners, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
A view of the first three levels of a silver mine in Sala. Images A and B show the elevator; 4 and 5 show the openings of the mine. 6 is a cross section of one level of the mine where miners are working
Alternative Title:
Fodina argentea sahlensis
Description:
Title from Paulson., State and date from Paulson., "Tom. 2, No. IX. Pl. I."--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A view of the first three levels of a silver mine in Sala. Images A and B show the elevator; 4 and 5 show the openings of the mine. 6 is a cross section of one level of the mine where miners are working
Alternative Title:
Fodina argentea sahlensis
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "T. II."--Upper left corner., "XXXII."--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 18 in volume 1.
A map showing the layout of a mine with seven views showing successively underground levels
Alternative Title:
Fodina argentea sahlensis
Description:
Title engraved in image., Date, publisher, and state from Paulson., "Tom: 2, No. IX. Pl. II."--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Impression with additions in Hogarth's hand.
A map showing the layout of a mine with Roman numerals referencing successively lower levels of the mine
Alternative Title:
Fodina argentea sahlensis
Description:
Title engraved in image., Date, publisher, and state from Paulson., "T. II."--Upper left corner., "XXXVIII No. 2."--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 20 in volume 1.
Photographs compiled by an unidentified compiler of the Black Butte Mine in Lane County, Oregon, 1910-1920. Depicted are the mining camp and unidentified miners in mines or at mine shaft entrances. The only photograph with a caption is of an illustration done by artist Edward Lange of the Black Butte Mining District
Description:
The Black Butte Mine, a mercury mine in Lane County, Oregon, was in operation from the 1890s until the late 1960s., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Oregon, and Lane County (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Lange, Edward, 1846-1912. and Black Butte Mine.
Subject (Topic):
Mercury, Mercury mines and mining, Miners, Mines and mineral resources, and Mining camps