mining

1879
Patent Model. System of Pumping and Cooling (for Mines) by Eusebius J. Molera and John C. Cebrian of San Francisco.  Patent no. 212,967 Cutaway model of gold painted metal with wood base...
Fool's Gold
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed on white paper with a beige background with black text. At the center is a circle with text above and below reading "ten problems with gold mining / fool''s gold". At the center of...

1872 Mining Law vs. Yellowstone
1996

Poster has a green printed background. At the top is "1872 Mining Law vs. Yellowstone" in white. Below the title is a map of Yellowstone with the various mining law claims in shades of red, yellow...

New York United Mine Workers Support Day
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black ink on thin off-white paper. Text printed at top reads, "New York United Mine Workers Support Day / Saturday, March 25 / Rally to send off food caravan to the coalfields...

Support the Stearns Miners
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed with brownish-orange and dark blue ink on off-white paper. The lower three-quarters of the page contain a graphic of four figures in a landscape with trees. Two men at left stand...

Untitled
1978

Poster printed with black ink on white paper. "Benefit Program for Striking / Stearns, KY. Miners" is printed at top center. A graphic appears at center that shows a portrait of a man in a cap, a...

Support the Striking Miners
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has an image of a man in a mining hat with a head lamp looking out at the viewer with a woman over his left shoulder doing the same. At the top is the text "Support the Striking Miners in...

[Untitled] "Like ripping apart St. Peter's in order to sell the marble"
1968

The poster has a large black and white photograph of an older Native American Indian man, he has long hair and a mustache, he is wearing a headband and necklace. Below the photo there are two...

Gold Greed Genocide
20th Century

The top and bottom edges of the poster a printed with a yellow and black geometric design. The left edge has a brown back ground with four paragraphs of text about the negative effects of gold...

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...

View of the West Side of Montgomery Street, From Washington to Pacific
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...

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)
c.1853

In unusual, metal-trimmed case made for carrying while travelling.

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 (...

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...

1988

Poster has photograph of a group of young boys with dirty faces, wearing hats and overalls, posing together on a mining cart. The boys are in a fenced yard with two older men in dark clothing...

1975

Poster has a black and white image of a man wearing a miner helmet with light, but it is split in half. The top edge has red printing that reads, "Bay Area Trade Union Conference Rally for Chile...

c.1904

Gold nuggets in pan also have gold wash; Back of spoon is plain.

1897

Loving cup. Description: Loving cup with three handles, silver with applied plaques of gold; engraved plaques show miners panning on one side, hydraulic mining on the second side and the...

3-Nov-12

Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...

4-Dec-12

Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...

27-Apr-16

Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...

7-Jul-12

Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...

c. 1850

Picture, Forty-niner. Independent gold seeker.

From the History Information Station:

Object: Lithograph. "The Independent Gold Hunter on his Way to California." Lithographed by...

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