Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The miner's ten commandments.
Call Number
E Row 2/GC053/Box 03/Normal GA 2024.04570
Identifier
ark:/88435/zp38wm938
Publisher
[San Francisco] : Sun Print. San Francisco, [1853]
Language
English
Date Created
1853
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.) : illustrations ; 29 x 24 cm.
References
Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. 709
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signed: Forty-nine [i.e., J.M. Hutchings].
"Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1853, by James M. Hutchings, in the clerk's office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Orders, pre paid, addressed 'Box H, Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.'"
Surrounded by eleven wood engravings, variously signed "Eastman," "H. Eastman, del.," and "Anthony & Baker."
Hutchings' Miner's ten commandments first appeared in the June 2, 1853, issue of the Placerville herald, and was frequently re-published with illustrations, selling as many as 97,000 copies in one year. Cf. Hutchings, J.M. Seeking the elephant, 1849, 1980, p. 22.
Text in three columns on broadside; printed area, including ruled border, measures 27.6 x 22.2 cm.
Not in Suzuki & Pulliam. California.
Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat.

Discovery Information

Subject
Gold mines and mining—California—Humor
Gold mines and mining—California—Pictorial works
Gold miners—California—Humor
Gold miners—California—Pictorial works
Ten commandments—Satire
California—Gold discoveries—Humor
California—Gold discoveries—Pictorial works
Wood engravings (prints)—United States—19th century
Broadsides
Facetiae

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/62341715-f3fc-4179-b263-a5f7698606e9/manifest