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untitled (Portrait of Isaac Wallace Baker) H. Reed 1862 This is a charcoal drawing on paper of Isaac Wallace Baker in a vintage frame. The image shows a portrait bust of a man in three quarter profile facing left. The man has chin length wavy hair...	Untitled (Californio man dressed as a vaquero) unknown c. 1855 Small wood and leather encased ambrotype. The leather has tooling in a floral pattern with two brass latches at the right side. Inside cover of the case is light red velvet. On the left side is...
gold pan 19th century Gold pans. a): sheet metal gold pan, rusted. 16" at rim, 10.75" at bottom. b): sheet metal gold pan, rusted. 15.625" rim, 10.5" at bottom...	Gold Greed Genocide Inkworks Press Late 20th - Early 21st Century Poster has brown borders on the left and right, triangular pattern borders on the top and bottom. Middle of the poster is a painting of Miners digging for gold. In the middle is a large hole in...
untitled (section of black and white photographs from the Isaac Wallace Baker Scrapbook) unknown ~ Isaac Wallace Baker ~ relative mid 20th century A four page section removed from a sketchbook of Isaac Wallace Baker with six black and white photographs.	The Miner's Ten Commandments Anthony, Baker and Eastman, Harrison Eastman, James M. Hutchings, Sun Print 1853 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...
Primitive Methods of Early Days - Pan, Rocker, and Arrastra Ernest Narjot n.d. ARTIST BIRTH: 1826 ARTIST DEATH: 1898	Captain Ned Wakeman William Smith Jewett c.1851
Portrait of Edward Washington McIlhany Tom More 1850 APPROXIMATE DATE: 1859 NOTES: Released for cons. to J. Rieniets sep, 1982. Retn'd sep, 1985. Great grandson of McIlhany came to photograph ptg. dec, 1974.	The Card Players Rufus Wright 1882 Arkelian, Marjorie. The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California. TOM. 1975, p. 71. (J. Nemeth,11/94) Per Grace Hudson Museum exhibit label: Rufus Wright, a genre...
View of the West Side of Montgomery Street, From Washington to Pacific George Robinson Fardon, Herre and Bauer, Publishers circa 1855 From Fardon's "San Francisco Album," published 1856, an extremely important work which was the first book of photographs published of any American city. Fardon was an early...	Grand Patent India-Rubber Air Line Railway to California Nathaniel Currier 1849 Reproduced in _The 49ers_, Time-Life Books, N.Y., 1974.
Murphy's Camp, July, 1853 Isaac Wallace Baker July, 1853 APPROXIMATE DATE: JUL, 1853 NOTES: Reproduced in BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY, by Geo. Craven, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1974. ARTIST BIRTH: 1810	Justice Meted Out to "English Jim" by the Vigilantes, San Francisco Harbor John Prendergast c. 1853 event was July 11, 1851
California Miner with Pack Horse Henry Raschen 1887	Mountain Jack and a Wandering Miner E. Hall Martin c.1850 Handbook Selection, 1984.
San Francisco in July, 1849 George Henry Burgess 1891 Handbook Selection, 1984. There is extensive research material on this painting in the museum library.	Portrait of Eliza Jane Steen Johnson Charles Christian Nahl 1858
Sarah Anne MacDougal with Elizabeth, January 1850, Upon Arrival in California unknown 1850	The Way They Go to California Nathaniel Currier c. 1849 Handbook selection, 1984. One of a set of six.
(Portrait of James D. Parker, Miner)\|James D. Parker Robert H. Vance 12/13/53 APPROXIMATE DATE: 1853 NOTES: Found on a slip of paper when case opened: James D. Parker, born Jan 17, 1820 in New Bedford Mass. This daguerreotype was taken for him...Dec 13, 1853. Robert Vance...	(Two Miners with Gold Nugget Stick Pins) unknown c.1853 In unusual, metal-trimmed case made for carrying while travelling.
Arastra ou manege mexicain pour le traitement du minerai aurifere G. Chassevent, H. Delaville 1862 from accession sheet: "The 48-page article we have "Voyage en Californie" by L. Simonin, appears to be one part of one semiannual issue of the periodical which Bancroft library has one year of (...	Chinois lavant les sables auriferes du rocker G. Chassevent, Laly 1862 from accession sheet: "The 48-page article we have "Voyage en Californie" by L. Simonin, appears to be one part of one semiannual issue of the periodical which Bancroft library...