gold rushes, california

[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]

Photograph shows four log cabins scattered along the hillside; prospectors stand near or atop piles of large rocks; a flume can be seen on the far left.

Mr. Golightly, bound to California, Political Cartoon

Caricature of man riding on rocket with items to sell to gold miners. Copyright by A. Donnely. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.

Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter... More

A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.

Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03

Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Baird, Califo... More

Life in the gold mines, California ; / Lithographed from a photograph ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows operations at a mining camp. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 132. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.19

The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...

Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07

Sundry amusements in the mines ; A Sundays amusements ; A daily pleasu...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of camp activities while not mining: washing clothes, cooking, mending clothes and boots, and discovering a bear warming its paws by the fire inside a tent; attached blan... More

[P. J. Espenscheid store, Nevada City, California]

Daguerreotype shows: P. J. Espenscheid's shoe store with an array of men in jackets with white shirts and ties, probably local merchants, standing in front of the store, a pile of litter beside the store, legib... More

[Miners panning for gold ; entering a mine shaft ; miners with equipme...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of mining life; attached blank leaf.

Springfield, Tuolumne County / G. H. Goddard, del., lith. Britton & Re...

Pictorial lettersheet shows town square and scattered dwellings in California Gold Rush town.

"49ers" - Drawing. Public domain image., Political Cartoon

Forty-niners arrive and depart from Sacramento, California, a small frontier town with a dance hall, poker parlor, saloon and barter center. Some pan for gold in the nearby river, while others stake their clai... More

Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Monastery, San Fernando Mission Ro...

Celestial empire in California : Miners ; gamblers Lith. & published b...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) caricatured Chinese miners in camp eating and nitpicking; and (bottom) playing a game of chance; attached leaf contains an annotation. Baird, Calif... More

Yreka - from Long Gulch Mountain, engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a bird's-eye-view of the town of Yreka, California looking south from Long Gulch Mountain. Jenks had a mining claim on Long Gulch. He became active in Yreka affairs and was elected constable in 18... More

Celestial empire in California : Miners ; gamblers Lith. & published b...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) caricatured Chinese miners in camp eating and nitpicking; and (bottom) playing a game of chance; attached leaf contains an annotation. Baird, Calif... More

Yreka - from Long Gulch Mountain

Drawing shows a bird's-eye-view of the town of Yreka, California looking south from Long Gulch Mountain. Jenks had a mining claim on Long Gulch. He became active in Yreka affairs and was elected constable in 18... More

Yreka - from Long Gulch Mountain, engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a bird's-eye-view of the town of Yreka, California looking south from Long Gulch Mountain. Jenks had a mining claim on Long Gulch. He became active in Yreka affairs and was elected constable in 18... More

California Bakery Cafe, Nome, Alaska, ca 1901 (MOHAI 7258)

By 1900, Nome had many businesses and amenities. There were twenty saloons, six restaurants, four hotels and six bakers. Baking bread requires flour and other ingredients as well as fuel. Both food and fuel had... More

Camp 90, De Casure Creek - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two men standing on the edge of a plateau, lower left, and pointing toward a group of covered wagons camped by a river in the distance. Mountains rise up on the opposite side of the river. This ca... More

Camp 90, De Casure Creek - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two men standing on the edge of a plateau, lower left, and pointing toward a group of covered wagons camped by a river in the distance. Mountains rise up on the opposite side of the river. This ca... More

Camp 90, De Casure Creek - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows two men standing on the edge of a plateau, lower left, and pointing toward a group of covered wagons camped by a river in the distance. Mountains rise up on the opposite side of the river. This ca... More

MARYATT(1855) Mountains and Molehills

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MARYATT(1855) p010 WHERE THE GOLD COMES FROM

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MARYATT(1855) p060 HIGH AND DRY (- FORMER SHIPS IN SAN FRANCISCO)

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MARYATT(1855) p090 VACCAEO AND INDIAN

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MARYATT(1855) p097 QUILP

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MARYATT(1855) p117 THE CHAGRES RIVER

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MARYATT(1855) p120 CAMPING OUT

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MARYATT(1855) p127 THE THREE MARTYRS

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MARYATT(1855) p129 THE SHOOTING BOX

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MARYATT(1855) p189 WINTER OF 1849

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MARYATT(1855) p236 ROWE'S LOT

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MARYATT(1855) p253 BAR ROOM AT SONORA

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MARYATT(1855) p262 A PROSPECTOR

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MARYATT(1855) p289 THE SONORA STAGE

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MARYATT(1855) p305 HORSE AUCTION

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MARYATT(1855) p315 THE UMBRELLA

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MARYATT(1855) p316 OLD SOLDIER AND CHOCKTAW

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MARYATT(1855) p324 THE LADY'S BOOT

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MARYATT(1855) p360 THE CARPENTER WAS JUDGE

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MARYATT(1855) p362 FRENCH MINER

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MARYATT(1855) p365 (THE END OF) JOHN CHINAMAN

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MARYATT(1855) p367 FEAST OF LANTERNS

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MARYATT(1855) p377 SAN FRANCISCO - A FIREMAN'S FUNERAL

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MARYATT(1855) p399 THE MINER'S GRAVE

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MARYATT(1855) p401 DRAWING STRAWS

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MARYATT(1855) p441 CROSSING THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

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MARYATT(1855) p447 MR. BOBBINS

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My cabin, Long Gulch - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows a lone cabin, made with hewn boards, amongst scrub brush and trees before low-lying hills. Jenks' cabin door and a window are open, partially revealing a fireplace and bunk in the one room. To the... More

My cabin, Long Gulch - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows a lone cabin, made with hewn boards, amongst scrub brush and trees before low-lying hills. Jenks' cabin door and a window are open, partially revealing a fireplace and bunk in the one room. To the... More

My cabin, Long Gulch - Public domain historic place drawing

Drawing shows a lone cabin, made with hewn boards, amongst scrub brush and trees before low-lying hills. Jenks' cabin door and a window are open, partially revealing a fireplace and bunk in the one room. To the... More

John Chaffee and Jason Chamberlain

In their cabin in Second Garrote, Groveland, CA circa 1890.

Mountain camp, Siera [sic] Nevada, engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a camp in the heart of a forest of tall pines. Covered wagons rest, their wheels nearly hidden by tall grass in the clearing. Men and women cook over a large open fire near a stream in the Sierra ... More

Mountain camp, Siera [sic] Nevada

Drawing shows a camp in the heart of a forest of tall pines. Covered wagons rest, their wheels nearly hidden by tall grass in the clearing. Men and women cook over a large open fire near a stream in the Sierra ... More

Mountain camp, Siera [sic] Nevada, engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a camp in the heart of a forest of tall pines. Covered wagons rest, their wheels nearly hidden by tall grass in the clearing. Men and women cook over a large open fire near a stream in the Sierra ... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

[Gold miners, El Dorado, California]

Photograph shows miner's camp and large log cabin on hillside; prospectors, some with shovels and pix axe pose near ditch and flume.

[Gold miners, El Dorado, California]

Photograph shows miner's camp and large log cabin on hillside; prospectors, some with shovels and pix axe pose near ditch and flume.

The way they go to California / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Gold rush cartoon, showing dock crowded with men with picks and shovels, and men jumping from the dock to reach departing ship; a crowded airship and a man on a rocket fly overhead; and a man with a pick and sh... More

The way they go to California / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Gold rush cartoon, showing dock crowded with men with picks and shovels, and men jumping from the dock to reach departing ship; a crowded airship and a man on a rocket fly overhead; and a man with a pick and sh... More

The dessert [i.e., desert] - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two men in the foreground, approaching large green plants from the desert in western Nevada. Behind them, a wagon train makes its way across the desert flats. Beyond, mountains rise. It took Jenks... More

The dessert [i.e., desert] - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two men in the foreground, approaching large green plants from the desert in western Nevada. Behind them, a wagon train makes its way across the desert flats. Beyond, mountains rise. It took Jenks... More

The dessert [i.e., desert] - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two men in the foreground, approaching large green plants from the desert in western Nevada. Behind them, a wagon train makes its way across the desert flats. Beyond, mountains rise. It took Jenks... More

Camp 23rd Arkansas River - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawings shows a tent and three covered wagons camped on the Arkansas River, lower right. Horses and cows graze near the banks of the river. Horses and oxen graze to the left. Jenks' party left the Santa Fe Tra... More

Camp 23rd Arkansas River - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawings shows a tent and three covered wagons camped on the Arkansas River, lower right. Horses and cows graze near the banks of the river. Horses and oxen graze to the left. Jenks' party left the Santa Fe Tra... More

Camp 23rd Arkansas River - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawings shows a tent and three covered wagons camped on the Arkansas River, lower right. Horses and cows graze near the banks of the river. Horses and oxen graze to the left. Jenks' party left the Santa Fe Tra... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More