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CALIFORNIA STATE L IBRARY
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017
MINING IN CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA H ISTORY SECTION D ISPLAY
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INTRODUCTION
California may be synonymous with gold, but that's not the only valuable mineral this state offers. Get bitten by the gold, copper or even the borax bug and ex-
plore our mining past through our carefully curated selection of images, ephemera and books. If you want more information about our mining history resources, consider viewing our research guide to Mining in Cali-fornia or contacting us via the following methods.
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VISUALS
Amedee, Charles Henri de Noe, and Meissonnier fils J. 1850. La Californie-Quadrille Brillant. Graphic.
Columbia Marble Quarry. 1917. N.S. : Mrs. M. D. Henshall. Graphic.
Comstock Quicksilver Mining Company. 1879. [Stock Certificates]. Watsonville: Comstock Quicksilver Mining Company. Graphic.
Head of Auburn Ravine, 1852. 1852. Graphic.
VISUALS
Hutchings, J. M. 1853. The Miners’ Ten Commandments. Graphic.
In Las Florez Canyon, California. 1888. Graphic.
Lewis Hill Gravel Gold Mining Company. c1905. The Lewis Hill Gravel Gold Mining Company of Newcastle, California. Sacramento: Lewis Hill Gold Mining Co. Graphic.
Marigold Dredge. No. 1. 1900, September. Oroville. Graphic.
VISUALS
Miners at Work with Long Toms. 1850. Graphic.
[New Idria Mine, San Benito Co.] (16 views). (1917). [Graphic].
No. 18649, $4.00, Tuolumne County, July 1, 1867. 1867 Tuolumne County. Graphic.
Red Cloud Mine, A.T., Risdon & Collins, Builders, San Francisco, Cal. 188-?.
V ISUALS
Starkweather, J. B. 1852. Spanish Flat, 1852. Graphic.
The Yard Gang. N.I.Q.M.Co., Idria, Cal. 191-?. Graphic.
Travail En Californie. 1850. Graphic.
Walnut Creek Mining and Milling Company. 1917. [Stock Certificates]. N.I: Walnut Creek Mining and Milling Company. Graphic.
V ISUALS
Waterhouse, A. and Maurice Levi. 1898. The Halcyon Days of '49. San Francisco.
Watkins, Carleton E. 18. [New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, Santa Clara County] (12 Views). Graphic.
Western, Card Company. 1912. Hydrolic [sic] Mining, Nevada City, Cal. # 4496. Graphic.
BOOKS
Barry-Schweyer, Carmel, and Alycia S. Alvarez. 2004. Mining Camps of Placer County. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia.
Brower, Maria E. 2006. Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub.
Clark, Jack. 2005. Gold in Quartz: The Legendary Idaho Maryland Mine. 1st ed. Nevada County Pioneers Series. A Grass Valley, CA: Comstock Bonanza Press.
BOOKS
Gier, Jaclyn J., and Laurie Mercier, eds. 2006. Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Holliday, J. S. 1999. Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. [Oakland, Calif.] : Berkeley: Oakland Museum of California ; University of California Press.
Johnston, Andrew Scott. 2013. Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890. Mining the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
BOOKS
Mace, O. Henry. 2004. 47 down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster. Hoboken, N.J: J. Wiley.
Nadeau, Remi A. 1999. The Silver Seekers: They Tamed California’s Last Frontier. 1st ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Crest Publishers.
Parent, Traci, and Karen Terhune. 2009. Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub.
BOOKS
Plazak, Dan. 2006. A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Trennert, Robert A. 2001. Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West. Boulder, Colo: University Press of Colorado.
Volmer, Mary. 2010. Crown of Dust. New York: Soho Press.
OTHER VISUALS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Around the World with Gems CFMS. 1994. Del Mar. Button Beals, Henry S. 1870. James Wilson Marshall. Graphic. [Coin]. N.S.: N.I. Coin. Delfina, Copper Mining Company. n.d. Time Book, March 1,
1866 - April, 1867. Empire, Gold Mining Company. 1879. The Empire Gold Mining
Company, Plymouth, Amador County, California. Edited by William Ashburner. Philadelphia: McLaughlin Brothers, Book and Job Printers.
“Foreign Miners’ Tax Receipt Stub, 1853.” 1853. Midas Gold Mine/Mill, Harrison Gulch. 1910. Graphic. San Gorgonio Min. and Gem Soc. N.S.: N.I. Button. This is 'The bad man from Bodie.' N.S.: N.I. Button. Yellow Aster 30-Stamp Mill. 1900. Graphic.
OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY
Alger, Horatio, John D. Seelye, Club of California Book, and in Tuscany Alley Press. 1965. The Young Miner, Or, Tom Nelson in California. San Francisco: Book Club of Califor-nia.
Black, Jack. 1980. Gold Prospectors Handbook. Tarzana, Calif: Del Oeste Press.
Book Club of California, and Press (San Francisco Greenwood Calif.). 1949. The Miners’ Own Book: Containing Correct Illus-trations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Min-ing. Edited by Rodman W. Paul. San Francisco: The Book Club of California.
Fuller, Willard P., Judith Marvin, Julia G. Costello, and Foot-hill Resources. 1996. Madam Felix’s Gold: The Story of the Madam Felix Mining District, Calaveras County, California. Ca-
laveras County, CA: Calaveras County Historical Society : Foothill Resources, Ltd.
Goodyear, W. A. 1877. The Coal Mines of the Western Coast of the United States. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & company.
Goss, Helen (Rocca). 1958. The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern Califor-nia.
Hildebrand, George Herbert. 1982. Borax Pioneer: Francis Mari-on Smith. 1st ed. San Diego, Calif: Howell-North Books.
Hughes, Marshall. 1939. “The Argonaut Mining Companies of 1848-1850.” Berkeley: N.S.
Johnson, Kenneth M., and Talisman Press. 1963. The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine: With an Account of the Land Claims Involving the Mine and Its Role in California History. Georgetown, Calif: Talisman Press.
Love, Frank. 1974. Mining Camps and Ghost Towns: A History of Mining in Arizona and California along the Lower Colorado.
OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY
Great West and Indian Series, v. 42. Los Angeles: West-ernlore Press.
May, Philip Ross. 1970. Origins of Hydraulic Mining in Califor-nia. Oakland: Holmes Book Co.
Mosier, Dan L. 1978. Harrisville and the Livermore Coal Mines. San Leandro, Calif: Mines Road Books.
Mosier, Dan L., and Earle E. Williams. 1998. History of Tesla: A California Coal Mining Town. Fremont, CA: Mines Road Books.
Shinn, Charles Howard. 1980. The Story of the Mine: As Illus-trated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. Vintage Nevada Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
Verdenal, Harrison, Murphy & Co. 1876. Annual Mining Re-view and Stock Ledger. San Francisco: Verdenal, Harrison, Murphy & Co.
Vredenburgh, Larry M., Gary L. Shumway, and Russell D. Hartill. 1981. Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining in the Cali-fornia Desert. Special 1st ed. Canoga Park, Calif: Living West Press.
Wagner, Jack Russell. 1970. Gold Mines of California: An Illus-trated History of the Most Productive Mines with Descriptions of the Interesting People Who Owned and Operated Them. Berke-ley, Calif: Howell-North Books.
Weatherbe, d’Arcy. 1907. Dredging for Gold in California. 1st ed. San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press.
Wheeler, Zenas, and P. M. Randall. 1865. Quartz Operator’s Hand Book. San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press job printing office.
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