Alaska: 1897-1901. Oblong folio, 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition, photographs generally excellent, some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region, about fifty to seventy-five miles.....
El Dorado County, California: 1879–1902. Sixteen items, mainly letters and descriptions of mining claims which total thirty-seven handwritten pages. Of the written pages: one 7 ½ x 7 ½ inch, three 8 x 5 inch, twenty 8 x 10 inch, seven 8 x 12 ½ inch, and six 8 x......
Calaveras County, California: 1889–1898. Seventy-two documents. Most sheets measure about 14 x 16 inches and are folded in half. The Utica Mining Company was owned by mining moguls Alvinza Hayward, Charles D. Lane, and W.S. Hobart, and ran mines in Calaveras County, California. This area, located on a portion of.....
Likely Plumas County, California: January 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. A letter from “Charly” to his wife or fiance, written in January of 1860 from “Ganser [possibly sic] Valley”, likely in Plumas County, California. Located in the Sierra Nevada, Plumas County contained a number.....
Eureka South, CA: 1866–1868. 7 ½ x 12 inch ledger book, 33pp with many more blank. Front cover near detached and back cover detached, missing spine, some staining of inside pages. Many inside pages torn out. An accounting ledger with some annual meeting notes of the American Exchequer Gold Mining.....
California and Oregon: c. 1887–1921. 160 total items. Description of Pacific Coast Outlaws 32pp 8vo in cloth wraps; wraps excellent with some staining; contents very good to excellent with some water damage. Thirteen copies found on OCLC. Two business cards, one with manuscript notes; 106 letters dating 1906 to 1911;.....
Sears Township, California: 1880. 10 ½ x 16 inch ledger, seventy-five pages. A ledger of the Sears Township assessor, documenting assessment of property values. Sears Township does not appear to exist anymore, but a November 1891 census bulletin lists a Sears Township in Sierra County, with a population of 400.....
Teller County, Colorado: c. 1895–1910. Large cyanotype photographic collage printed on cloth, approximately 20 x 20 inches. A composite cyanotype printed directly onto fabric, presenting a series of mining views from the Cripple Creek district arranged within rounded rectangular and circular panels. The individual images are captioned in the negative.....
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Oregon: 1890s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches. Fine condition, some wear to mount. A striking photograph of a group of miners in Grant’s Pass in Oregon in the 1890s, including a woman and a girl. We believe the photograph to be taken near Tom East.....
Georgetown, Colorado: Dalgleish Bros. 1889. Glass negative measuring 5 x 7 inches. Captioned on negative, both sides. (Note: the listing photograph has been inverted from the original.). A glass negative showing a prospector posing with his two donkeys on top of Grays Peak, Colorado. The captions read: “AN OLD PROSPECTOR.....
Custer, South Dakota: E. P. Noll & Co., 1897. Packet measuring 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches, containing a forty-page booklet and fold-out map measuring 28 ½ x 31 inches. The Black Hills gold rush began with George Armstrong Custer’s expedition there in 1874, breaking the US government’s treaty with.....
Glenwood Springs, Colorado: Dennis, 1880s-1890s. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches on larger mount. An uncommon cabinet card lampooning the plight of the solitary miner through a series of drawings. The drawings show a man setting out to strike it rich before burying himself in a hole, from.....