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The Miner’s Ten Commandments
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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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The Miners’ Ten Commandmens
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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 text at the center of the image describing the commandments. "H. Eastman del."--text, below the first vignette. "Anthony & Baker."--text, below eight vignette. "Eastman. Anthony & Baker."--text, below tenth vignette. 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 a giant redwood tree in the center, a large redwood stump with several people standing on it, a large rock and a cabin to the right, and other smaller trees in the background. The text in German around the image describes Mammoth Tree Grove of Calaveras County. "Anthony & Baker SC. Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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Life Among the Miners
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Image contains thirteen vignettes with a poetic description below each. The vignettes depict different aspects of mining life including where and how miners live, what miners do for entertainment, what miners dream about, troubles that befall miners, and good fortunes that befall miners. "Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, 146 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Printed by S.H. Wade, Era Builidng, 151 Clay Street."--text, below image. 'No.2"--text, upper right corner, indicating that this image may be part of a series. There is some handwriting on the verso of this sheet. Paper color: blue.
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Miners’ Decree: Or A New Verse-ion of the Ten Commandments. By Cadez Orion
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Page 1 of the image depicts a miner to the left of a tree with the letter sheet title repeated on a sign. The miner is saying: "Wonder which of these onlikely roads nears off tu Hangtown? Helloa! A guide-board, sartin." A bear is going off at the right. Below this image is the preamble and by-laws of the Miners' Decree. "HE. Anthony." text, below image. Stamped text to the left of the title. Page 2 of the image is a continuation of the text of the Miners' Decree. "Published at Stiles' New Book and Stationer's Hall, Broad St., Nevada."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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