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California Lettersheets, 1849-ca. 1870
BANC PIC 19xx.097--A  
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Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey. San Francisco, May 14th, 1856. BANC PIC 19xx.097:01--B--A

Additional Note

San Francisco : Britton & Rey, 1856
4 lithographs; 12 x 17 cm. each
Four illustrations. Down left to right: Assassination, Funeral of Js. King, Surrenger of the Jail, Execution
 

Adventures of a Pike in California BANC PIC 19xx.097:01--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Britton & Rey
Lithograph: 25 x 18 cm. [overall]
Includes 17 illustrations, left to right, top to bottom: Coming in from the Plains; Winter Experience; Disturbers of his Rest; Wet Diggings; Dry Diggings; buys a Quartz Claim; Daming; Making acquaintance with the natives; Visits Sacramento; Buys a horse; and Stockton; Going back to the Mines; Other parties Claim him next day; Dead broke; Sinks in a deep hole; Makes a rais; and takes the Railroad for home
 

[Number not used] BANC PIC 19xx.097:02--A

 

Appearance of Morse & Heslep's Flour Mill, Hayward's, as left by the Earthquake of Oct. 21, 1868. Loss $12,000 BANC PIC 19xx.097:03--A--A

Additional Note

Lithograph: 13 x 18 cm.
 

Articles in a Miner's Creed BANC PIC 19xx.097:04--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: James M. Hutchings, 1855
Wood cut: 24 x 18 cm.
 

Bachelor in a Tight Place BANC PIC 19xx.097:05--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield
Wood engraving; 12 x 18 cm.
 

Calavaras Big Tree Grove Hotel BANC PIC 19xx.097:06--B--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: Mdss-Eng. Co. N.Y. (?)
Lithograph; 10 x 17 cm.
 

California Politicians BANC PIC 19xx.097:07--A--A

Additional Note

For Sale, ... at the Noisey Carrier's
Lithograph; 24 x 16 cm.
 

Coining Money At The San Francisco Branch Mint San Francisco: Hutching [sic] and Rosenfield BANC PIC 19xx.097:08--A--A

Additional Note

A. Nahl, Butler, Eastman, Herrick Sc. [in various blocks]
Wood engraving; 25 x 22 cm. [overall]
Includes 7 illustrations, left to right, top to bottom: Making The Granulations; Front View Of The San Francisco Branch Mint; Cleaning the Planchets; Running The Gold Into Ingots; Rolling And Cutting Room; Adjusting Room; Stamping Into Coin
 

Col E. D. Baker. We mourn his loss. BANC PIC 19xx.097:09--A--A

Additional Note

illiam [William] Keith [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 13 x 10 cm.
 

Day & Night Of A Miner's Life BANC PIC 19xx.097:10--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Britton & Rey
Lithograph; 24 x 17 cm. [overall]
Includes 3 illustrations. [2 copies]
 

Departure For El Dorado BANC PIC 19xx.097:11--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Quirot
Lithograph; 25 x 21 cm. [overall]
Includes 9 illustrations: Corresponding Agent; Cheap and easy way of going to the mines; Delmonico; To Admirers of Music; Departure for El Dorado; Life preserver in the mines; As I am in want of patients for my Sarsparilla, and it is the only thing I have to live upon, I shall swallow it myself; Director of the X... Mining Company; A Company of prospecting miners; Gamblers
 

Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River March 21th [sic] 1853 BANC PIC 19xx.097:12--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Britton & Rey
4 Lithographs; 10 x 13 cm.
Wreck of Steamship Tenessee [sic] Indian Cove, March 6th, 1853;
Wreck & Burning of the Steamer Independence, Island Marcarita Feby. 16th 1853. 150 Lives Lost;
Collapse of Flue on Board Jenny Lind off San Francisquito, April 11th 1853. 50 Lives Lost;
Wreck of Propellor [sic] Steamship S.S. Lewis, Duxburg Reef April 9th 1853
Also 2 small lithographs.
[Two copies]
 

Downieville At The Forks Of The North Yuba River BANC PIC 19xx.097:13--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: S. W. Langton
Sketched by A. W. Grippen
Justh & Quirot Lithographers
Lithograph; 17 x 26 cm.
 

Earthquake In San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 21st 1868 BANC PIC 19xx.097:14--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: D. Appleton & Co.
3 Lithographs, left to right; 9 x 5 cm.; 11 x 11 cm.; 9 x 5 cm.
 

The Frazer River Thermometer BANC PIC 19xx.097:15--B--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Sterett & Butler, 1858
Lithograph; 41 x 25 cm. [overall]
Includes 18 illustrations: across top: Leaves his family; Widest anticipations realized; Gold by the cart l oad; down left side: Jonathan takes the Fever; Law limit 400; Excited Speculators; $500 per day to the man; Gets a Letter from his friend; Reports confirmed; The Bulletin Board; Country Merchant; down right side: Interior view Victoria Hotel; Waits for the River to Fall; The Water Falls; A Bare prospect; Hair-breadth escape; Bone of a grizzly, not a gristly bone; down center: illustration of thermometer
 

Great Fire In San Francisco June 14th 1850. 500 Buildings Burned Loss $5,000,000 BANC PIC 19xx.097:16--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: WB Cooke & Co.
C. J. Pollard Lithograph Lithograph; 12 x 23 cm.
 

The great Fire in San Francisco in the morning of the 17 of September 1850 BANC PIC 19xx.097:17--B--A

Additional Note

Grand incendie á San Francisco Le 17 Septembre 1850. (au matin).
El gran Incendio en la mañana del 17 de Setiembre 1850
[all 17's are blurred as if artist were not sure of date]
Lithograph; 20 x 36 cm.
 

Hutchings' California Scenes. The Mammoth Trees BANC PIC 19xx.097:18--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: James M. Hutchings, 1854
Sun Print
Anthony & Baker Sc. [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 22 x 18 cm.
[Three copies. See also no. 35]
 

Hydraulic Method of Mining BANC PIC 19xx.097:19--A--A

Additional Note

W. C. Butler, Engraver [in block, l.r.]
C. Nahl. [in block, l.l.]
Wood engraving; 23 x 18 cm.
 

Iowa Hill BANC PIC 19xx.097:20--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: Barber & Baker
G. H. Baker del. [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 11 x 19 cm.
 

Jose Forner, Aged 32 Years, a Native of Valencia, Spain BANC PIC 19xx.097:21--B--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Bonestell & Williston
Published under the direction of the keepers of the County Jail
Lithograph; 21 x 18 cm.
 

La Porte, Sierra County BANC PIC 19xx.097:22--A--A

Additional Note

La Porte: J. C. Lester
AE S. F. [monogram in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 10 x 13 cm.
 

The Late Hon. David C. Broderick, United States Senator From California BANC PIC 19xx.097:23--A--A

Additional Note

Butler [in block, l.r.]
From a Photograph by Selleck, being the only one ever taken from life
Wood engraving; 11 x 10 cm.
 

Mammoth Grove Hotel BANC PIC 19xx.097:24--A--A

Additional Note

Sperry & De Briges, Proprietor
Calaveras County, Cal ...... 187 [1870s]
T. J. Pettit [in both blocks, l.r.]
2 Lithographs (?); 10 x 8 cm.
 

Mammoth Grove Hotel BANC PIC 19xx.097:25--A--A

Additional Note

Sperry & Perry, Proprietor
Calaveras County, Cal. ..... 187 [1870s]
Stockton (Cal.) Independent print
Lithograph (?); 8 x 5 cm.
 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year BANC PIC 19xx.097:26--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield
Wood engraving; 9 x 11 cm.
 

Michigan City BANC PIC 19xx.097:27--A--A

Additional Note

Sacramento: Barber & Baker
Wood engraving; 10 x 19cm.
 

Miner's Hotel and Bakery, Mormon Island BANC PIC 19xx.097:28--A--A

Additional Note

Dallas A. Kneas
Avery, Sc. N.Y. [under block, l.r.]
Lithograph; 11 x 17 cm.
(? "Early Woodcut by Samuel Putnam Avery, 185- ?, hand-written in pen)
 

Miner's Map of Frazer River And Its' Tributaries With The Gold Bearing Country BANC PIC 19xx.097:29--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Towne & Co's Print
S. F. Baker, Engr.
Sold by J. W. Sullivan, News Agent, San Francisco
Wood engraving; 25 x 21 cm.
 

Miner's Ten Commandments BANC PIC 19xx.097:30--A--A

Additional Note

A New Verse-ion, Including A Preamble, By-Laws and Decree
by Cadez Orion
Downieville: S. W. Langton & Bro'[thers] Sierra County
Lithograph of Britton & Rey, San Francisco
3 Lithographs; across top: 7 x 8 cm. Good Years Bar; 7 x 5 cm. [untitled]; 7 x 8 cm. Downieville
 

[Mining Scene, untitled] BANC PIC 19xx.097:31--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: Chas. P. Kimball
Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hall, San Francisco
ECR [backwards, in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving;(?) 13 x 16 cm.
 

Nevada City BANC PIC 19xx.097:32--A--A

Additional Note

[N.p.]: Forrest & Borden
Wood engraving; 16 x 28 cm.
 

BANC PIC 19xx.097:33--A--A

 

Placerville BANC PIC 19xx.097:34--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Quirot & Co.
Lithograph; 19 x 26 cm.
 

Der Riesenbaum der Welt BANC PIC 19xx.097:35--A--A

Additional Note

Die Mammoth=Bäume
San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield
Anthony & Baker Sc. [in block lower right]
Wood engraving (?); 22 x 18 cm.
[See also no. 18]
 

Sacramento City, From The R Street Levee BANC PIC 19xx.097:36--A--A

Additional Note

Sacramento: Barber & Baker
Barber & Baker [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 10 x 18 cm.
 

San Francisco in 1849 BANC PIC 19xx.097:37--A--A

Additional Note

Taken from Broadway near Kearny Street
Wood engraving; 10 x 16 cm.
 

San Francisco Court House, Alameda Co. as left by the Earthquake of Oct. 21, 1868 BANC PIC 19xx.097:38--A--A

Additional Note

Lithograph; 13 x 20 cm.
 

Sonora Jany. 1853 BANC PIC 19xx.097:39--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Britton & Rey
George H. Goddard del.
Lithograph; 18 x 25 cm.
 

Southern Approach to Jamestown Tuolumne County Cal. BANC PIC 19xx.097:40--B--A

Additional Note

Lithograph by Britton and Rey, San Francisco
Entered by L. Jones, 1853
G. H. Goddard del.
Lithograph; 11 x 34 cm.
 

[Table of distances to the fork of the Thompson's River. Transferred to book collection. Cataloged as pfPM849.T3] BANC PIC 19xx.097:41--A

 

View of Minnesota with Orleans Flat in the distance, taken from the hill in the rear of the Spring House BANC PIC 19xx.097:42--A--A

Additional Note

Downieville: Wm. B. Monmonier, June 1st 1856
Lithograph by Britton & Rey
Lithograph; 10 x 20 cm.
 

View of Montgomery St. From Sacramento Wharf The Morning After The Great Fire BANC PIC 19xx.097:43--A--A

Additional Note

Lithograph by Justh & Co., San Francisco
Lithograph; 14 x 26 cm.
 

View Of The Conflagration Of Marysville, On The Night Of August 30th - 1851. BANC PIC 19xx.097:44--A--A

Additional Note

Three entire squares consumed - Loss estimated $ 500,000
Marysville: R. A. Eddy
Lithograph by Justh, Quirot & Co., San Francisco
Lithograph; 19 x 27 cm.
 

View of The Plaza Marysville Alt. California BANC PIC 19xx.097:45--A--A

Additional Note

[San Francisco: Cooke & Le Count]
Lithograph of Pollard & Perrgoy [sic] San Francisco
Lithograph; 18 x 25 cm.
 

View On Second Street, Sacramento City BANC PIC 19xx.097:46--A--A

Additional Note

Sacramento: Barber & Baker
Barber & Baker [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving; 11 x 19 cm.
 

Winter In The Mines BANC PIC 19xx.097:47--B--A

Additional Note

San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield
Printed by S. H. Wade, [San Francisco]
C. Nahl [in several blocks] C.N. [in one block]
A [Thomas Armstrong monogram, in three blocks]
Wood engraving; 39 x 25 cm. [overall]
Includes 7 illustrations
 

Established 1860. Agency of the Mission Woolen Mills BANC PIC 19xx.097:48--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco, Feb. 11, 1851
Boyd [under block, l.r.]
Wood engraving (?); 4 x 10 cm.
 

Banking House of Page, Bacon & Co. BANC PIC 19xx.097:49--A--A

Additional Note

Sacramento, 185 [1850s]
Offices Sacramento, Stockton, San Francisco
Wood engraving (?); 28 x 24 cm. [overall]
Includes 4 illustrations
 

Banking House of Page, Bacon & Co. BANC PIC 19xx.097:50--A--A

Additional Note

Sacramento, 185 [1850s]
Offices Sacramento, Stockton, San Francisco
Wood engraving (?); 28 x 24 cm. [overall]
Includes 4 illustrations
[Variant of :49--A]
 

Banking House of Page, Bacon & Co., BANC PIC 19xx.097:51--A--A

Additional Note

San Francisco........18 [after 1850]
Correspondents.
American Ex. Bank, New York
Duncan, Sherman & Co.
Atlantic Bank, Boston
Philadelphia Bank, Philadelphia
La State Bank, New Orleans
Page & Bacon, St. Louis
2 Wood engravings (?); 5 x 5 cm.
 

Office Of The Mining and Scientific Press. BANC PIC 19xx.097:52--A--A

Additional Note

Government House, San Francisco
San Francisco.....1861
Wood engraving (?); 5 x 22 cm.
 

Stockton Female Seminary, Stockton BANC PIC 19xx.097:53--A--A

Additional Note

18 [1866?]
D'Van Vleck, Del - Sc. [artist and engraver in block, l.l.]
Wood engraving (?); 10 x 18 cm.
 

"True Delta" Depot. Sacramento City ...........1851 BANC PIC 19xx.097:54--A--A

Additional Note

W. Onensbury (?) del [in block, l.r.]
Wood engraving (?); 10 x 12 cm.