Box 2
Container
Contains 67 Results:
Timbuctoo, Yuba County, California, 1862., circa 1862
File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: Baird 270:
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 1862
The times!!!, before 1851 August 4
File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Identifier: Baird 272:
Scope and Contents
Comic illustration of the arrest of an arsonist, with the state prison and a Vigilance Committee hanging juxtaposed in the background.
Dates:
before 1851 August 4
Tremendous excitement! Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities, and hung by the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday August 24th at 3 o'clock p.m. in the presence of fifteen thousand people., before 1851 September 1
File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Identifier: Baird 274:
Scope and Contents
Depicts a large crowd watching a double hanging from the rafters of a San Francisco building, with signs for Bullitt, Patrick & Dow, Torrey & Blanchard, H.A. Cheever & Co., and the Vigilance Committee Chambers.
Dates:
before 1851 September 1
Two roads in California., undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: Baird 275:
Scope and Contents
Eight vignettes illustrating "two roads in California": one leading, through hard work, to "industry's reward," and the other ending, after gambling, women, and wine, in "ruin and the gutter."
Dates:
undated
Utah Valley, 1850., circa 1850
File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: Baird 277:
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
View of Agua Fria Valley., undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: Baird 282:
Scope and Contents
View of mining settlement in Agua Fria, Mariposa County.
Dates:
undated
View of Campo Seco and Quartz Mountain Tuolumne County., 1853 June
File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: Baird 285:
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 June
View of the conflagration from Telegraph Hill San Francisco, June 22d 1851., circa 1851
File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: Baird 288:
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 1851
View of D Street, Marysville, Cal., undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: Baird 291:
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
A view of the [elephant]., undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Identifier: Baird 293:
Scope and Contents
An image of the "elephant," surrounded by eight vignettes illustrating the hardships of mining life.
Dates:
undated