Miners’ Decree: Or A New Verse-ion of the Ten Commandments. By Cadez Orion

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  The Miner’s Ten Commandments

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  Upper illustration is of an elephant lifting its trunk to point at a paper on a tree that says: "Miners [sic] Ten Commandment [sic]. A miner is also looking at the sign. Baird notes that this illustration is related to the top central vignette of "Hutchings Miners' Ten Commandments." The text printed below the illustration outlines the ten commandments. Baird notes that the text is also related to "Hutchings Miners' Ten Commandments," but Commandment VI is abbreviated and Commandment X is rephrased and abbreviated. "Published at "Noisy Carrier's," 77 Long Wharf, San Francisco, Cal."--text, below image title. "Potter. HE. Anthony."--block letters within image. "O'Meara & Painter, printers, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: blue.

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  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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  The Miner's Ten Commandments

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  Image of eleven vignettes depicting The Miners' Ten Commandments and an elephant pointing with its trunk to a sign for Ten Commandment [sic] on a cabin. The commandments deal with mining practices, moral issues, and family matters. The vignettes surround the text at the center of the image which describes the commandments. "H. Eastman del."--text, below the first vignette. "Eastman. [Anthony & Baker]."--text, below tenth vignette. "Sun Print, San Francisco. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by James M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Orders, pre paid, addressed "[Box H Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal."]."--text, below image. Part of the right side of the image has been torn away on the right side. Paper color: blue.

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  Miners at Work With Long Toms

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  Image at the top is of miners shoveling earth and gravel into long toms with houses and trees in the background. Lower left images are of a miner with a shovel, axe, and pan, and a Native American chief sitting down. "Copied from a Daguerreotyp [sic] sketch, by Quirot Lithographers."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.

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  [Untitled. Baird title: Miners’ Life]

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  Image contains four vignettes. The upper left vignette depicts miners panning for gold. The upper right vignette depicts one miner being lowered into a mine shaft by another. The lower left vignette depicts three miners working. The lower right vignette depicts two miners outside a tent cooking over their fire. A monogram is in one of the lower corners of each vignette. "Lith. of Britton & Rey California St. corn. Montgomery St. S-Francisco."--text, below image. The number 20 is in the upper right corner, indicating that this image may be part of a series. Paper color: buff.

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  The Miners’ Ten Commandmens

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