Box 1
Container
Contains 76 Results:
Fort Vigilant Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn Davis Front [upper]. Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe [sic] June 14th [lower]., before 1856 July 28
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Baird 083:
Scope and Contents
Includes two illustrations. Upper illustration shows fort in the foreground, with signs for Brown & Crowel, Mills & Valentine, and Stoves hanging from storefronts in the background. In the distance are ships on the wharf.
Dates:
before 1856 July 28
Fort Vigilante. Showing the defences [sic] around the "Vigilant Committee Rooms.", undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Baird 084:
Scope and Contents
Includes blue seal of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance.
Dates:
undated
Gambling in the mines Monte [upper]. Faro [lower]., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Baird 086:
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and...
Dates:
undated
Georgetown and Pilot Creek Canal, El Dorado County., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Baird 087:
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and...
Dates:
undated
Grand admission celebration. Portsmouth Square, Octr. 29th 1850., circa 1850
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: Baird 090:
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and...
Dates:
circa 1850
Grass Valley, Nevada County California., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: Baird 093:
Scope and Contents
Shows the town of Grass Valley, a lumber mill, and a farm, with scattered people, at work and leisure.
Dates:
undated
Great fire in San Fransisco [sic]. May 4th, 1850. 400 buildings burned! Loss $5,000,000!, circa 1850
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Baird 096a:
Scope and Contents
Depicts fire raging on the east side of Portsmouth Square, with people gathered in the Plaza in the foreground. Also includes a map of the blocks burned, bounded by Dupont, Clay, Jackson, and Montgomery Streets.
Dates:
circa 1850
The great fire in San Francisco on the morning of the 17 of September 1850. Grand incendie á San Francisco le 17 Septembre 1850. (au matin). El gran incendio en la mañana del 17 de Setiembre 1850., circa 1850
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Baird 098:
Scope and Contents
Depicts fire raging on the north side of Portsmouth Square, with people gathered in the Plaza and ships on the harbor.
Dates:
circa 1850
Happy New Year, 1856 To all at home, circa 1856
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Baird 100:
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and...
Dates:
circa 1856
Honest voters trying to elect their officers in front of the house [upper]. Ballot box stuffers, electing their men behind the house [lower]., circa 1855
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: Baird 102:
Scope and Contents
Two satiric illustrations referring to the election of September 5, 1855.
Dates:
circa 1855