california gold rush

1998

This quilt block was entered in the "School Quilt Block Competition, 1998, co-sponsored by P & B Textiles and the Oakland Museum of California. Students had to incorporate into their quilt...

c. 1949

Postcard featuring Al Rohrman, a real estate agent and entrepeneur in Oakland from the 1930s until his death in the 1950s. He is seated in a donkey drawn carriage which displays a banner which...

April, 1998

This quilt Block was the First Prize winner for Grades K-5 in the P & B Textiles/Oakland Museum of California Quilt Block Competition for students (K-12) in Alameda County, 1998. The block...

1948

Sheet music has a gold colored cover, with the title and the composer printed in black, as well as a partial image of a wagon in the center. The innermost facing pages of the inside sheet are...

1998

This quilt Block was the third prize winner in the P & B Textiles/Oakland Museum of California Quilt Block Competition for students (K-12) in Alameda County, 1998, for Grades K-5. The block...

1/22/1849

Handwritten letter from Horace L. Tidye to "Dear Cousin Lucy" in "North Providence, Jan 22, 1849" in which he mentions the newly found gold. He references "gold fever" and mentions two...

1998

This quilt block was entered in the "School Quilt Block Competition, 1998, co-sponsored by P & B Textiles and the Oakland Museum of California. Students had to incorporate into their quilt...

1997

"David Risling, Sr., once told Brian Tripp a story about hydraulic mining in Northwest California in the area of a traditional Karuk village. He described miners blasting down the hillside in...

 (Two Miners Being Outfitted For the High Sierra)
c. 1856

This tableau depicts two miners, on mules, being outfitted for their journey into the High Sierra. Another man, to the right, poses with paper and pencil in hand, as if tallying up the costs of...

c. 1852

A group of ten men roughly dressed miners posed on the porch of their barracks. On the side wall of the structure are two objects which may possibly be framed groups of daguerreotypes. Somewhere...

c. 1870

Group portrait of Bret Harte and the men that worked with him on his San Francisco newspaper.

1865-1875

Portrait of Bret Harte in New York City.

c. 1904

Entrances to two mine shafts; man with shovel standing in the uppermost one. c. 1904. Two copy prints

1850; 1939

S.F. in 1850 (Niantic Hotel) print made in 1939

c.1852

Daguerreotypes. Two half-plate views of mining scenes in Placerville, Ca. A: Uncle Bill & others at mining. Remarks: On exhibit 19th c. Gallery 9/78 mg.

February 10, 1849

Newspaper published in London, England, containing articles on the California Gold Rush, giving English perspective. Article: "The Gold-Seekers of California." Illustration: The Gold Region of...

January 6, 1849

Newspaper published in London, England, containing articles and illustrations of the California Gold Rush. Articles: "The Gold of California," and "Gold Washing." Poetry: "The Mail Coaches" and...

January 13, 1849

Newspaper published in London, gives English perspective on California Gold Rush. Articles: "The Gold Mines In California," "Geographical Extent and Boundaries of Upper California," "Bay of San...

1850s

Bound manuscript containing Isaac Wallace Baker's lecture notes on his California experiences, together with pencil and watercolor sketches, advertising broadsides and pasted-in photographs...

1851

William Shew, one of the most famous American daguerreotypists of...

c.1853

Though credited to Johnson's Sacramento studio, this daguerreotype probably depicts a San Francisco fireman. The shield on his helmet reads "Pacific 8 M.R." While there was apparently no engine...

c.1854

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1853 NOTES: Private collector and others believe that this is the only scene of the gold rush miner and cart in a gold rush scene of land, and not river mining.

c. 1851
c.1855

Quarter plate daguerreotype with hand tinted cheeks in original case. King was a crusading newspaper editor whose assassination sparked the Vigilante Uprising of 1856.

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