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'Gold Mining in California', 1849 . Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a 'long tom' and hydraulic...

'Gold Mining in California', 1849 (1871). Artist: Currier and Ives

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Coloma, California 1

The Chaudière Gold-Fields, Canada: the gold-diggers' dwellings, 1864. 'The Chaudière...flows through a highly picturesque and cultivated valley...In...

The Chaudière Gold-Fields, Canada: the gold-diggers' dwellings, 1864. F Creator: Unknown

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Coloma, California 3

'The Way They Come From California', 1849 . From Old California, In Pictures and Story, by Stewart Edward White and published by Doubleday, Doran and...

'The Way They Come From California', 1849 (1937).Artist: Nathaniel Currier

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Booming San Francisco : Rain and mud in the streets Wood engraving - Cartoon of 1850s

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Booming San Francisco : Rain and mud in the streets Wood engraving - Cartoon of 1850s

People, Industry, pic: 1849, U,S,A, "Forty niners" looking for gold in the "gold rush" days

People. Industry. pic: 1849. U.S.A. "Forty niners" looking for gold in the "gold rush" days.

Map of the Alaskan gold fields, 1897. Beginning in the mid-19th century, gold was discovered in a succession of strikes along the western coast of...

Map Of The Alaskan Gold Fields

Vintage illustration of Chinese immigrants and gold miners in San Francisco in 1849, with a saloon, hotel, and general store; lithograph, 1926.

Miners Of The 1849 Gold Rush

Miners panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush. Wood engraving published Paris 1849.

Miners panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush. Wood engraving published Paris 1849.

Things as They Are 1849

Things as They Are 1849

Map of the mining district of California, 1850. The California gold rush of 1849 began with the strikes at Sutter's Mill on the American River near...

Map Of The Mining District Of California

Map of the mining district of California, 1851. This map, produced in two parts in the early years after the California Gold Rush of 1849, shows the...

Map Of The Mining District Of California

Men on board a ship sailing around Cape Horn on the way to California during the gold rush of 1849.

Miners washing gold in a river valley during the California Gold Rush, 1849.

California Gold Rush

Miners travelling to find new diggings during the California Gold Rush era, 1849.

Miners During The California Gold Rush

'The Californian Balloon Railway', a novel way of travelling to the Californian Gold Rush, 1849. A prospector riding on the back of a large bird,...

'The Californian Balloon Railway', a novel way of travelling to the Californian Gold Rush, 1849.

Scenes from the California gold rush, 1849 . Scenes include: the 'Eliza' heading for California; the arrival at San Francisco; travelling about the...

Scenes from the California gold rush, 1849 (1937).Artist: Cooke & Le Count

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California, with over half a...

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849.

San Francisco in November 1858 and the end of the 19th century, . San Francisco grew dramatically after the discovery of gold in California in 1849...

San Francisco in November, 1848, 1858 and the end of the 19th century, (1901).

The arrival of Californian gold and Mexican dollars at the Bank of England, London, in 1849. After an illustration in the London Illustrated News...

The arrival of Californian gold and Mexican dollars at the Bank of England, London, in 1849. After an illustration in the London Illustrated News published September 22, 1849.

Miners' ball during the great Californian Gold Rush, when prospectors came from all over the world to pan for gold in the area around Coloma. An...

Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a 'long tom' and hydraulic mining....

Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a 'long tom' and hydraulic mining. Coloured lithograph by Currier and Ives 1871. ...

Circa 1849 poster advertising passage to the California gold region from New Bedford, Massachusetts.

California and the Gold Region Direct! Poster

Australia. 19th century. Gold Rush. Prospectors looking for gold nuggets. Engraving.

Gold prospectors wash their diggings at a mine in California.

Shining Prospects

Crowds of men line the shores of California, desperately offering sacks full of gold to be transported home to New York after the Gold Rush. 'The way...

Gold Rush Folly

Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter struck gold, accidentally starting the gold rush.

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California, with over half a...

Panning For Gold During The Californian Gold Rush Of 1849. Artist: Unknown.

49er GOLD RUSH PROSPECTOR PANNING FOR GOLD CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OF 1849 1800s

49er GOLD RUSHROSPECTOR...

Lithograph by Henry R. Robinson with the caption 'A Gold Hunter on his way to California, via St. Louis,' depicting a man carrying a shovel, pans and...

Interior of a tunnel of a gold mine during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849.

Interior Of Tunnel In California Gold Mine

Copy of a pencil and watercolor painting of Sutter's sawmill by William Rich Hutton, Coloma, California, April 1849. Notes handwritten on the...

Place we Hear About 1849

Place we Hear About 1849

Gold rush California 1848-1854: San Francisco in its bonanza period . Gold diggers queue in front of the post office. 1849woodcut of A. Gastaigne,...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: San Francisco in its bonanza period . Gold diggers queue in front of the post office. 1849woodcut of A. Gastaigne, 1891

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Arrival of a 'Greenhorn' contemp wood engraving, around 1850

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Arrival of a 'Greenhorn' contemp wood engraving, around 1850

Title page from the first edition of L.W. Hastings' travel and gold rush guide, published in Cincinnati in 1849.

Title Page Of Travel & Gold Rush Guide

Overall view of main street in the mining whose halcyon days were during the Gold Rush of 1849 where the murder trial of Ellie Nesler was held at a...

Overall view of main street in the minin

Original Caption - Miners of California Rush cradle rocking to separate gold from soil. Woodcut ca. 1854

Illustration of Miners of the California Gold Rush

Riverboats moored in the port of Sacramento in California, a mining town founded during the Gold Rush of 1848. The caption reads 'Des Auswanderers...

Sacramento River

Hydraulic mining at French Corral, the first historic mining camp to appear along the San Juan Ridge, during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849.

Hydraulic Mining During The Gold Rush

family panning for gold on surface mine germany 1849 - 1849 gold rush stock illustrations

Family panning for gold on surface mine Germany 1849

Lithograph by J. W. Revere of Sutter's Fort at New Helvetia shortly before the Gold Rush, circa 1848. From "J.W. Revere: A Tour of Duty 1848,"...

Hon. David C. Broderick of Cal., between 1855 and 1865. [Lawyer and politician. Moved to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush of 1849,...

David Colbreth Broderick Of California

Engraving entitled "PLEASANT WEATHER IN THE GULF," depicting a group of men and women aboard a steamer, traveling to California via Panama in 1849....

Men And Women In Steamer Cabin

John Augustus Sutter . Swiss-born American pioneer. Built New Heveltia at Sutter's Fort. On January 1848, while building a sawmill, James W Marshall...

Californian gold miner.

Fortune seekers traveling to the California goldfields to find new diggings during the California Gold Rush era, 1849.

A Rush For The New Diggings

The .31 calibre Colt revolver, used by Wells Fargo agents in America during the 1849 Gold Rush.

31 Caliber Colt

Century of growth of far western U S followed California Gold Rush of 1849, Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the east to the...

Century of growth of far western U S followed California Gold Rush of 1849.

The title page to An Account of California and the Wonderful Gold Regions, published by J.B. Hall in 1849.

An Account of California and the Wonderful Gold Regions Title Page

Gold Rush congregations of San Francisco celebrating their 150th anniversary. First Baptist Church at Market and Octavia Sts. San Francisco....

BAPTIST 04-C-16NOV99-MN-MAC Gold Rush congregations of San Francisco celebrating their 150th anniversary. First Baptist Church at Market and Octavia Sts. San Francisco. Photograph of the original church in 1849, was located on Washington st.

Miners washing for gold using a cradle in the: Californian gold fields. Wood engraving published Paris the year of the Californian Gold Rush.

Miners washing for gold using a cradle in the: Californian gold fields. Wood engraving published Paris, 1849, the year of the Californian Gold Rush.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Store-ship 'Apollo' at ther quai of San Francisco harbour. 1850Lithograph of a contemp. Drawing.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Store-ship 'Apollo' at ther quai of San Francisco harbour. 1850Lithograph of a contemp. drawing.

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. From The Illustrated London News 6 January 1849. Wood engraving

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. From The Illustrated London News 6 January 1849. Wood engraving...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: View of San Francisco , city and bay during the time of the gold rushabout 1849wood engraving, 19th cent.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: View of San Francisco , city and bay during the time of the gold rushabout 1849wood engraving, 19th cent.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Members of a youth gang , the 'Hounds`attacking chinese and chilean contract labourers encampments. San Francisco...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Members of a youth gang , the 'Hounds`attacking chinese and chilean contract labourers encampments. San Francisco 1849wood engraving, 19th cent.

Lithograph by Schmidt Label and Lithograph Co. Depicts a sparsely populated San Francisco, its harbor full of sailing ships in 1849 when the Gold...

San Francisco, 1849 by Schmidt Label and Lithograph

1800s CURRIER & IVES COLOR ENGRAVING OF THE GOLD MINING FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA CIRCA 1848 1849

1800s CURRIER & IVES COLOR...

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