Search

You Searched For

Search Results

1.
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

2.
Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining

Creator:
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902, author
Published / Created:
[1855]
Call Number:
WA Prints 415
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A sheet with 12 images of various elements of Gold Rush mining operations, each with title and letterpress explanation of the activity depicted. The image for "Rocking the cradle" includes a Chinese worker. On the sheet's right side is a column listing mining locations
Alternative Title:
Methods of mining
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet., Some images are signed C. Nahl; some are signed T.C. Boyd., and "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Jas M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California."
Publisher:
Published by J.M. Hutchings
Subject (Geographic):
California and California.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Mining engineering, Gold miners, Miners, Gold discoveries, and Chinese
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hutchings' California scenes : methods of mining

3.
Big Bar -- middle fork

Creator:
Glover, Edwin, cartographer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1851?]
Call Number:
WA Prints +442
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
Low angle view. and Depicts a hydraulic mining operation in a steep ravine along the Mokelumne River; numerous buildings of a mining camp, water wheels, and sluices; miners are working with picks along an excavated hillside.
Publisher:
Lith. by Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Mokelumne River (Calif.), Mokelumne Hill (Calif.), and California
Subject (Topic):
Miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Big Bar -- middle fork

4.
A prospecting party

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1854]
Call Number:
WA Prints 395
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Unused pictorial lettersheet with four illustrations. The first image, "Starting," shows three miners and a pack mule happily leaving a log cabin. "Not even the colour" shows the three miners at the gold diggings, finding nothing. "The end of the mule" shows the miners trying to hold on to the mule's lead rope as he falls down a mountainside. The fourth image, "Returning," shows the miners in tattered clothing returning to the log cabin
Description:
"5"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, and Miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A prospecting party

5.
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

6.
Celestial empire in California

Published / Created:
[185-]
Call Number:
WA Prints 400
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Unused pictorial letter sheet. Upper illustration entitled "Miners" shows Chinese doing daily chores and eating outside camp tents. Lower illustration entitled "Gamblers" shows Chinese gambling around a table. Miners is a mirror image of an 1857 lithograph by J.D. Borthwick entitled "Chinese camp in the mines."
Description:
Title from caption at top of images.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, and Gambling
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Celestial empire in California

7.
Challenze, Californier clipper ; Baltic, Liverpool steamer

Published / Created:
[between 1851 and 1855?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 394
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sheet showing 5 vignettes, 2 of which have captions. At upper left is an allegorical female figure of Agriculture; at upper right is an allegorical female figure representing the United States; at lower left is a clipper ship at sea in full sail with an American flag, with caption title "Challenze, Californier clipper," probably intended to be "Challenge, California clipper"; at lower right is a sidwheel steamship at sea with all sails raised, with caption title "Baltic, Liverpool steamer"; in the center, dividing the 2 sides of the sheet, is a long vertical image of miners working in a deep mine shaft, probably representing a California gold mine
Alternative Title:
Challenge, Californier clipper and Challenge, California clipper
Description:
Title from captions below 2 of sheet's 5 vignettes.
Publisher:
Published by C. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St. N.Y.
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Challenge (Clipper) and Baltic (Mail steamer)
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining and Miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Challenze, Californier clipper ; Baltic, Liverpool steamer

8.
Departure for El Dorado

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1855?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 377
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
stilll image and text
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Departure for El Dorado

9.
Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 399
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of mining life. In the top scene, three miners, one of whom may be African-American, sit around a table in a cabin while a fourth miner weighs a small amount of gold. In the bottom scene, miners and their pack animals walk along a hilly trail and beside an enormous tree
Description:
Title from captions at bottom of each image. and "7"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Lith. & pub. by Britton & Rey, cor. Mont. & Comm'l. Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Miners, Gold miners, African Americans, Gold mines and mining, and Gold discoveries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dividing the pile ; Hard road to travel

10.
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