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Title
The Miner’s Ten Commandments
Creator
O'Meara & Painter, printer
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902, publisher
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
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.
Type
image
Format
High resolution
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.) overall
Identifier
48052:086
48737
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23477
Language
English
Subject
California--Gold discoveries
California--Pictorial works
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source
California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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