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Box 2

 Container

Contains 67 Results:

San Leandro Court House, Alameda Co., as left by the earthquake of Oct. 21, 1868., circa 1868

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: Baird 253:
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 1868

Scene at the San Francisco Post Office, showing how we get out letters., before 1854 March 30

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: Baird 254:
Scope and Contents

Shows a large crowd gathered outside of the post office and adjacent buildings, with signs for the Eagle Saloon, Central Stage Office, Nicaragua Line, N.M. Babbitt & Co. General Commission & Intelligence Office, J.W. Sullivan, Leland & McCombe's Crescent City Express, M. Ullman, American & Foreign Newspaper Depot, R.F. Ryan Law Offices, C.H. Leland & Co. Newspaper & Periodical Depot, Oakley & Co., Post Office, and Robbs.

Dates: before 1854 March 30

Scenes in a miners life., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: Baird 255:
Scope and Contents

Six vignettes depicting miners at work and rest.

Dates: undated

Shipment of the prisoners. Charles P. Duane, Martin Gallagher, Billy Mulligan, Wm. Carr, Edward Bulger and Woolly Kearny, sent from the country, by the "Vigilance Committee of San Francisco," at two o'clock, A.M., June 5, 1856., undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Baird 256:
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

Sonora from the North. Springfield, Tuolomne County., 1853

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Baird 257:
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: 1853

Stabbing of Officer Hopkins by Judge Terry. General affray on Jackson Street, on Saturday, June 21st, 1856. [page 1, upper] Mounted battalion in motion, corner of Montgomery and Washington Sts. [page 1, lower], circa 1856

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: Baird 262:
Scope and Contents

Four vignettes, two on page 1 and two on page 4, illustrating the stabbing of Officer Hopkins, a mounted battalion at the corner of Montgomery and Washington Streets, the rush to arms at Fort Vigilance, and the surrender of the law and order forces under Col. West at the California Exchange. Vignettes on page 1 are surrounded by text describing the "exciting events of Saturday, June 21st, 1856."

Dates: circa 1856

Stewart's plan for improving the plaza., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: Baird 263:
Scope and Contents

Illustrates Stewart's Baroque-Classical plan for improving the San Francisco Plaza, which was never executed.

Dates: undated

Sunday morning. [upper] Log cabin. [lower], undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: Baird 267:
Scope and Contents

Two vignettes showing two miners resting, one eating inside of a tent and the other reading a book outside near a fire; and two miners standing outside of a log cabin.

Dates: undated

Sundry amusements in the mines., undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: Baird 268:
Scope and Contents

Four vignettes depicting two miners cooking, washing, mending, and confronting a bear warming his paws in their tent.

Dates: undated

Surrender of the prisoners James P. Casey Chas. Cora to the Vigilance Committee Sunday, May 18th. 1856. 2500 citizens under arms, a reserve of 2500, ready, at a moments notice., circa 1856

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: Baird 269:
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