Box 1
Container
Contains 76 Results:
Miners at work with long toms., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Identifier: Baird 159:
Scope and Contents
Shows miners at work with long toms, beneath which are printed romantic illustrations of a miner with a shovel, ax, and pan, and a reclining Indian chief. The entire lettersheet is enclosed in a border decorated with leafy boughs, fauna, and spears.
Dates:
undated
Miners' decree; or, a new verse-ion of the Ten Commandments. By Cadez Orion., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Identifier: Baird 162:
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
Miner's decree: or a new verse-ion of the Ten Commandments. By Cadez Orion., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Identifier: Baird 162a:
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
[Miners' life.], undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Identifier: Baird 164:
Scope and Contents
Four vignettes showing two miners at work and rest.
Dates:
undated
Miner's life--Illustrated., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Identifier: Baird 165:
Scope and Contents
Thirteen vignettes depicting the miner's life, surrounding printed text of two miner's songs.
Dates:
undated
The Pictorial News Letter of California. For the Steamer Golden Gate July 5, 1858. No. 8 Price, 10 cents each., 1858 July 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Baird 201:
Scope and Contents
Includes illustration of Whatcom, Bellingham Bay.
Dates:
1858 July 5