A rare tinted lithograph picturing an early stamp mill in one of the most prosperous gold-quartz mining districts in California, including an extensive text on the operation and evidently issued for promotional purposes. In October of 1850, George Knight’s discovery of gold-bearing quartz in California’s Grass Valley set off over.....
An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush. This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food as he walks overland to California along a body.....
An unusually large and very scarce California pictorial letter-sheet view of the mining town of Columbia. An artist, architect and civil engineer, George Henry Goddard (1817–1906) left his native England in April 1850 to seek his fortune in California, arriving in San Francisco aboard the Diana in October of that.....
![Item #7954 [View of Mount Shasta.] “Mountain Pass Looking Northeast” [verso note]. William Keith](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7954_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695843110)
A lovely watercolor view looking northeast through a mountain pass toward Mount Shasta, by famed California artist William Keith. Keith (1838–1911) born in Scotland, arrived in San Francisco in 1859, working as a wood engraver. He studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes and first exhibited watercolors in 1866. Much of.....
The original illustration for the cover of the November 1907 Arizona Number of The West Coast Magazine. Smith’s captivating composition juxtaposes the romantic figure of a cowboy astride his horse on a ridge with a gritty smelting plant in the background belching a large plume of smoke into the sky.....
A color-printed wood engraving depicting California’s Mammoth Trees, distributed by the Cincinnati Weekly Times to its subscribers as a premium. Published at a time when the wonders of the American West were still objects of international disbelief and fascination, this engraving shows the Mammoth Tree Hotel nestled among—and dwarfed by—the.....