Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Kurz & Allison (active ca. 1906), undetermined
Title:
The miners pioneer ten commandments of 1849
Date:
c1887
Materials:
print on canvas mounted on board: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
56.6 x 71.6 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0817--D
Subject:
- Animals
- Camping
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Indians of
North America
- Manners & customs
- Miners
- Mining
- Settlers
- Vehicles
- Westward movement
- Women
- Illustrations
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Text of ten commandments surrounded by images depicting life of miners and pioneers including: claim jumping, gambling, chores, Indians, wagon trains, mining camps, tavern scenes; animals (elephant, donkeys, bears, horses, etc.), women and family life.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Copyrighted 1877 by W.P. Bennett, Gold Hill, Nevada; (LR): Kurz & Allison's art studio, Chicago, U[nited] S[tates of] A[merica].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf1v19p0t f

The miners pioneer ten commandments of 1849