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Description
2002-0036 PRINTS: LETTERSHEETS: MINERS' TEN COMMANDMENTS Baird, Eleven vignettes surround text. Top, center: Elephant points with trunk at sign for Ten Commandent [sic] on cabin; miner looks on. At sides and bottom, other vignettes: No. I.: miner holding shovel aloft, staking claim; another miner nearby; No. II.: miner "jumping a claim," other miners in background; No. III.: a gambling "hell," woman and children standing plaintively in doorway; No. IV.: miners at Sunday tasks; No. V.: peaceful domestic scene in miner's former home; no. VI.: men drinking in a rude tavern; No. VII.: men discouraged at lack of results from panning: No. VIII.: men by a stream; hanged man, across stream; No. IX.: two miners, foreground; man being shot, background; No. X.: courtship and/or marriage. Lettersheet trimmed. May have had text at bottom: "Orders, pre-paid, addressed Box H Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal." "Entered...1853 by James M. Hutchings..." CSL has other versions and photographic copies (accession #s: 2002-0034, 2002-0035, 2002-0037). Negative, no. 26,717 (4 x 5 in.)
Type
image
Format
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print on blue wove : wood engraving ; 11 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. sheet.
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