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Box 2

 Container

Contains 67 Results:

The miner's ten commandments. A new verse-ion, including a preamble, by-laws and decree. By Cadez Orion., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Baird 169:
Scope and Contents

Three vignettes, including an illustration of a miner striding an elephant with two stone tablets, beneath which the text of the miner's ten commandments is printed.

Dates: undated

Miners weighing their gold. [upper] The dreams of a prospecting miner. [lower], undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Baird 170:
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

[Mining scene.], undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Baird 172:
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

Mission Dolores., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Baird 173:
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

Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: Baird 176:
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

Oh! Home of my boyhood., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: Baird 186:
Scope and Contents

Depicts a happy domestic scene, beneath which the text of the song "Oh! Home of my boyhood" is printed.

Dates: undated

Outside view of Fort Hall., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Baird 190:
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

Overton block, corner of Second and Third Sts., Sacramento., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Baird 191:
Scope and Contents

Depicts the Overton block in Sacramento, with signs for W.S. Clemons, Read & Co., and Post Office.

Dates: undated

Panorama of San Francisco., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 1:
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

Past Present of California., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: Baird 193:
Scope and Contents

Thirteen overland and oversea, mining, and San Francisco scenes, including illustrations of the ships Golden Gate and San Francisco.

Dates: undated