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  • California Mining - Ground Sluicing

    California Mining - Ground Sluicing

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    Image is of five men working at a river and two men digging at a lower level. There is a cabin in the distance on the right and there are lofty peaks in the background. "Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street, San Francisco. Anthony & Baker SC."--text, below image. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamp on the lower left of the image. Paper color: buff.

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  • River Mining

    River Mining

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    Image of miners within a wooden enclosure digging a trench, shoveling gravel into a sluice box, and lifting a large bolder with a pulley. The river and a cabin on a hill are in the background. "Anthony & Baker SC. Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

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  • Sunday in the California Diggings

    Sunday in the California Diggings

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    Image is of miners engaged in various activities: fighting, horse racing, drinking, reading, writing, and washing clothes. "Published at the Wide West Office. Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. "C. Nahl."--text, within image, lower left. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, below image to the right. Paper color: buff.

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  • [El Dorado] August 1851

    [El Dorado] August 1851

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    Image is of San Francisco's four-story El Dorado building east of the Plaza and seen from the northwest. "Published by C.P. Kimball. Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hall. Long Wharf, San Francisco, Cal."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

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  • The California Water Carrier

    The California Water Carrier

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    Image of a man carrying two buckets of water from a water barrel on a horse-drawn cart. There are houses and dogs in the background. "Boyd S.F. Published by T.C. Boyd, wood engraver, (Iron Building,) corner Washington and Montgomery sts., San Francisco."--text, below image. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, upper right corner of sheet. Paper color: buff.

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  • The Miners’ Ten Commandments

    The Miners’ Ten Commandments

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    Image depicts miners engaged in various types of mining: panning for gold, using a long tom, sluicing, using a well, and wheeling an ore cart out of a mine entrance. Baird notes that this image is related to "River Mining" in its format and execution. "Published at the Wide West Office, 184 Clay Street. Anthony & Baker SC."--text, below image. "[Noi]sy Carriers, [S]an Francisco."--stamped text, upper left corner of the image. There are two handwritten uppercase letters beneath the title of the image. Paper color: gray.

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