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...

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...

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This rare trial proof does not include the text of the final version. The caption "Funeal of Js. King" is misspelled.

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Two illustrations of Benicia from different vantage points, with the following identifications: Martinez ferry; steamboat landing; P.M.S.S Co. Depot; U.S. Pacific Military Depot; Navy Bay; Monte Diablo & coal mines; Pacific Mail Steamship Co's Depot; Martinez; road to Vallejo; river steamboat landing; Sacramento boat; and flour mill.

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View of mining operations and scattered buildings at Big Bar, with towering hills in background.

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Aerial view of San Francisco looking west, with the following identifications: Point Lobos, Point Boneta, Fort Point, Presidio, Mountain Lake, Lone Mountain Cemetery, Divisadero, Mission Dolores, South Park, Laguna, Meigg's Wharf, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Clay St. Hill, Yerba Buena Cemetery, Alcatras [sic] Island, Blossom Rock, Goat Island, and the Farallones Islands (Pacific Ocean).

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Various illustrations of the parade, with descriptive text, surrounded by seals of the thirty states.

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...

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...

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Numerous comical illustrations depicting the gold craze in California, with text describing the Frazer River gold mines and their history, and a thermometer measuring the craze, standing at 120 degrees ("boiling heat").