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Title
The miner's Ten Commandments
Creator
Eastman, Harrison, 1823-1886, American, artist
Anthony & Baker, active 1850s, engraver
Sun Print, active ca. 1850, printer
Date Created and/or Issued
c1853
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
Notes/Inscriptions:Printed title (MC). Printed (within some images): H. Eastman, del; Anthony & Baker. Printed (LC): Sun print, San Francisco/Entered... 1853 by James M. Hutchings... California, Orders, pre-paid, addressed Box H, Placerville, El Dorado Co[unty], Cal[ifornia]. Each image numbered. Handwritten letter on recto and verso dated March 1855.
Printed title (MC). Printed (within some images): H. Eastman, del; Anthony & Baker. Printed (LC): Sun print, San Francisco/Entered... 1853 by James M. Hutchings... California, Orders, pre-paid, addressed Box H, Placerville, El Dorado Co[unty], Cal[ifornia]. Each image numbered. Handwritten letter on recto and verso dated 1855.
On blue laid paper.
Eleven marginal views illustrating bad habits of miner including: claim jumping, gambling, household chores, family life, gaming, working, and partnerships. Upper image includes elephant pointing to commandments.
Type
image
Format
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets
Extent
28.5 x 23.3 cm., image on sheet 28.5 x 46.7 cm.
Print on paper: wood engraving
Identifier
BANC PIC 1963.002:0096--B
ark:/13030/tf338nb5fh
honeyman_cubanc_37_1_00030263
Subject
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Manners & customs
Animals
Engravings
Pictorial lettersheets

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