Gold mines and mining
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Allen Varner letters
Collection — Folder S2442
Identifier: S2442
Scope and Contents
This collection contains copies of letters written by Allen Varner during the California Gold Rush, including an April 29, 1849 letter he wrote to his family in Indianapolis, Indiana from Independence, Missouri on his way to the gold fields; a November 12, 1849 letter written from "Rectors Bar, north branch of the middle fork of the Sacramento" to his brother and friends; a March 5, 1850 letter written from "Rector's Bar, Middle branch of American fork of the Sacramento"; and a December 15,...
Dates:
1849-1852
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Allen Varner letters
Enoch Richard Steen diary
Collection — Folder S1244
Identifier: S1244
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a 62-page, typed transcript of the diary of Enoch Richard Steen from 1865, concerning his hobbies and social activities, farm work, the end of the U.S. Civil War, and experiences in Montana around Virginia City and Helena during the gold rush era.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Enoch Richard Steen diary
Eugene L. Teal papers
Collection — Folder S1635
Identifier: S1635
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several letters sent in 1906 to Eugene L. Teal of Anderson, Indiana from Joseph McGee of Kamloops, British Columbia regarding a gold and copper mining; a September 1906 letter from H. Clay Read of Big Springs, Texas asking for particulars about a gold and copper mine; a February 10, 1906 legal document transfering Hampton E. Jackson's patent for improvements to plunger valves to Teal for one dollar; an undated advertisement for the Jackson "Universal Plunger" by the...
Dates:
1906-1907, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Eugene L. Teal papers
Ewing family collection
Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates:
1818-1889
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ewing family collection
Ezra Bourne papers
Collection — Folder S145
Identifier: S0145
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed document from Ezra Bourne in Indiana ranging from 1850 to 1852 regarding travel to and life in California during the Gold Rush, also a copy of the Star Mining Company constitution and bylaws.
Dates:
1850-1852
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ezra Bourne papers
Goldfield-Lincoln Mining Company collection
Collection — Folder S1975
Identifier: S1975
Scope and Contents
This collection includes commercially printed brochures and a copy of a typed letter with signature from William Berg and the St. Ives Leasing Company in Chicago, Illinois and Goldfield, Nevada ranging from 1907/08/15 to 1907/10/07 regarding information about mining results and plans.
Dates:
1907
Hagerstown Mining Company article of agreement
Collection — Folder S2389
Identifier: S2389
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a February 12, 1849 article of agreement contract signed by Samuel G. Newcom, Franklin Newcom, and John Michael Fritch, all of Wayne County, Indiana. The Newcoms agreed to "pay to the treasurer of the Hagerstown Mining Company one hundred and twenty five dollars as an outfit for the use of said John Michael Fritch in the contemplated expedition to California by said Hagerstown Mining Company." The agreement also included an agreement by Fritch to share an equal dividend...
Dates:
1849/02/12
James A. Seaton, California Gold Rush articles
Collection — Folder S1797
Identifier: S1797
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of a newspaper’s reprint of a diary kept in 1850 by James A. Seaton traveling from Indiana to California to participate in the California Gold Rush. The newspaper only includes excerpts from the diary with minimal annotations. The folder contains 11 documents and the publications from August 1, 1942 until August 6, 1942.
Dates:
1942
John Elder papers
Collection — Folder S417
Identifier: S0417
Scope and Contents
This collection includes newspaper excerpts from letters and diaries from Governor James Whitcomb, John Elder and James Elder in Indiana and California ranging from 1845/01/01 to 1850 regarding building construction, daily life and California during the Gold Rush.
Dates:
1845/01/01-1850 December
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Elder papers
John Prichet journals
Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates:
1849-1851
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Prichet journals
