A67.100.1

• california gold rush

Lettersheet,. Description: "The Miner's 10 Commandments" blue paper. (Info. from California Pictorial Letter sheets, 1849 - 1869. Publ. David Magee: S.F. 1967) p. 129 of Catalogue, No. 167: "H. Eastman Del (in top left block, 1.1.) Anthony & Baker (in top center block, l.l.). Sun Print, San Francisco. Orders, pre paid, addressed "Box H Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal." entered...1853, by James M. Hutchings...Calif. letter sheet, The Miner's Ten Commandments: Eleven vignettes: Top, center: Elephant points with trunk at sign for Ten Commandent(sic) on cabin; miner looks on. At sides and bottom, other vignettes: No. I.: Miner holding shovel aloft, staking claim; another miner nearby: No. II.: miner "jumping a claim," other miners in background; No. III.: a gambling "hell", woman and children standing plaintively in doorway; No. IV: miners at Sunday tasks; No. V.: peaceful domestic scene in miner's former home; No VI.: men drikging in a rude tavern: no. iII.: men discouraged at lack of results from panning; No. VIII.: men by a stream; hanged man, across stream; No. IX.: two miners, foreground; man being shot, background: No. X.: courtship and/or marriage (All known letters date from 1854.)