gold mining

Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Baird, Califo... More

Life in the gold mines, California ; / Lithographed from a photograph ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows operations at a mining camp. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 132. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.19

[How the Natives collect gold in the streams]

Native men using hollow rods which they drive into the sandy bottom of streams to collect gold and other metals. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in... More

Hydraulic gold mining, St Bathans, New Zealand - Muir & Moodie / Burto...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...

Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07

Untitled (Gold Miners in Front of a Pond)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Miners panning for gold ; entering a mine shaft ; miners with equipme...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of mining life; attached blank leaf.

Untitled (Portrait of a Man Holding a Pick-Axe)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Daguerreotype Studio and Russel & Co Livery Stable, Mokelumn...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sado, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prformance...

Print shows gold mines in cliffs on Sado Island, with miners carrying gold out of the mines. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ... More

Untitled (Gold Washers) - Victorian era public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Two Men Wearing Top Hats, Leaning on a White Picket Fence)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Portrait of a Gold Miner)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled, 19th century - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Portrait of Seated Man)

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Untitled (Mining Town) - Daguerreotype, Public domain

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Untitled (Gold Mining Scene with Six Miners)

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Untitled (Portrait of a Man Wearing a Straw Hat)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat, Holding a Mining Pan)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Untitled (Group of Carpenters) - Victorian era public domain image

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Untitled (Miners and Log Cabin)

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Untitled (Two Miners in Front of a Shack)

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Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

The Klondike. Prospector at Claim 29, above Hunker.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold mining in Marlborough. From the album: Oliver family album

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Gozzie and party, Golden Gate. From the album: Oliver family album

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The gold mining town of Rock Creek, British Columbia, 1860

Photograph shows a cluster of log buildings, one identified as a restaurant, of the gold mining town, Rock Creek, British Columbia, as seen from a hillside above the town, with the creek in the background. In ... More

Gold workings at the Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully, Central Otago

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Miners claim at Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully, Central Otago

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Hydraulic mining near French Corral, Nevada County

Gems of California scenery, no. 1404. The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. LOT subdivision subject: Hydraulic Mining.

Boatman's Crushing Machine near Reefton

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Russell's Gold Battery. From the album: Scenes of New Zealand

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Untitled (Group Portrait of Miners)

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Tuapeka Blue Spur goldmines, British America claim, New Zealand / Burt...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Dredge McCormack. Museum of New Zealand collection

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Three men in gulch with a sluice, placer mining for gold] / W.H. Jack...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold Workings at the Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully

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Gold Workings at the Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully

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Gold Workings at the Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully

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Gold Workings at the Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully

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Gold digger on Stoneburn, near Dunedin, NZ

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Miners prospecting / Remington.

Two miners panning for gold. 12385T U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cullen and Party's sluicing claim at Kumara

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Blue Spur, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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The Cradle / H. Sandham.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Hydraulic mining for gold in California. Illustration by Henry Sandham. Illus. in: The Century illustrated monthly magazine; 1883 Jan., p. 325. Reference copy also available in LOT 4397-H.

The Sluice / H. Sandham.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Hydraulic mining for gold in California. Illustration by Henry Sandham. Illus. in: The Century illustrated monthly magazine, Jan., 1883, p. 324. Reference copy also available in LOT 4397-H.

The Monitor / H. Sandham.. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...

Hydraulic mining for gold in California. Illustration by Henry Sandham. Illus. in: The Century illustrated monthly magazine; 1883 Jan., p. 325. Reference copy also available in LOT 4397-H.

Virginia & Truckee ore train Crown Point trestle ; Virginia & Truckee ...

Photographs show trains, train depot, and trestle bridge; also earlier photograph of men looking for gold; at the Comstock Lode, Nevada. Illus. in: Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Vi... More

[Panning for gold, Puerto Rico] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lenskīĭ Gornyĭ Okrugʺ. Koreĭtsy starateli. Promyvka zolota lotkami / F...

Print shows Korean men panning for gold in Lena Mining District, Russia.

Sheep camp. Yukon Territory. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Photograph shows a tent camp in the middle distance, the foreground dominated by snow and the background by snow covered mountains. 68849 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 70. Copyright by F.D. Fujiwara.

His silent partners / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

Print shows a prospector with a pick working next to a stream and a sluice-box labeled "Klondike Placer" surrounded by vultures labeled "Gin Mill Keeper, Card Sharp, Dance House Keeper, Gambling Den, Dive Keepe... More

Puck magazine cover - Better than Klondike! / Dalrymple.

Print shows a bloated man labeled "Trusts" holding a gold mining pan with large gold nuggets, sitting by a stream labeled "Dingley Tariff" that flows from the U.S. Capitol building. Illus. from Puck, v. 42, no... More

River camp and Lake Bennett. Yukon Territory

Photograph shows tents near Lake Bennett. 68838 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 87. Copyright by F.D. Fujiwara.

No. 1, below on Anvil Creek, last clean-up for a day & one half run, $...

No. 59. Label on verso: "Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Shelf Mark: V945. Dr. H. S. Pritchett, Superintendent. State, Alaska. Locality, No. 1, below on Anvil Creek, a tributary to ... More

Panning out the gold in the Klondyke [Klondike], Alaska.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trees in front of mission, ladened with volcanic ash, Alaska

Picryl description: Public domain image of trees, forest, park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank E. Downs. Trip to Nome, Alaska, May to Sept. 1900: Cemetery at N...

Trees in front of mission, ladened with volcanic ash, Alaska

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Hydraulic gold mining, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Victor, Colo., and the Gold Coin Mine

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group portrait of a woman and three men, crouched outside, smiling; o...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Claim 23 above Hunker. The Klondike.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Klondike--prospectors a [sic] Claim 29, above Hunker

1132 U.S. Copyright Office. No. X2749. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Panning gold in a shovel at Pioneer Mine - Frank G. Carpenter in cente...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Lindeberg panning gold at Pioneer Mine with a shovel

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Men panning gold, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Gold mining, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Gold mine, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Mr. Buckingham with Eph's wife, Elsie Downs, and two children, at Sutt...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Klondike, Discovery claim - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

Four miners posed at mine, Yukon Territory. 1113 U.S. Copyright Office. No. X2733.

Victor, Colo., and the Gold Coin Mine

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ 425" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013841. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Tunnel at Juneau Mine - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Lindeberg panning gold in a shovel at Pioneer Mine - Frank G. Carpente...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Karangahake Gold Fields. Museum of New Zealand collection

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The strenuous life in the Klondyke [i.e., Klondike]

Men digging for gold, Klondike, Yukon Territory. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dewey mine, showing old Caswell sluice

Gold mine on Thunder Mountain, Idaho. H35977 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 21. Copyright by W.W. Saunders.

At work in the stope of the California mine, Eagle River Canyon, Color...

Gold miners at work in mine. Public domain photograph of burial, grave, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General View of The Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nev. looking easterly show...

H86457 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; P. E. Larson; December 18, 1906. Photographer's address: Esmeralda County, Nevada, U.S.A. No. 4205.

General view of the Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada

H85504 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; P. E. Larson; November 21, 1906. On front: "The greateset gold mine known. First sixty days operation, $6,000,000.00 production. No. 4200. P. E. Larson photos, Go... More

Filling the trucks with gold quartz, Robinson Mine, Johannesburg

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Goldfield, Nevada, The World's Greatest Gold Ming [sic] Camp known

H86455 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; P. E. Larson; December 18, 1906. Photographer's address: Esmeralda County, Goldfield, Nevada, U.S.A. No. 4202. Landmarks numbered on image, key at lower left.

[Street scene, Goldfield, Nevada]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Homestake gold mine, Lead, S. Dak. flash-light photographs of the unde...

Photograph shows interior of large mine with timber supports; two men stand atop wood beam structure. Photo and copyright 1908 by W. B. Perkins, Jr., Lead, S. Dak. Additional title on item: Flash-light photogra... More

Staratelʹskīi︠a︡ raboty okolo Berezovskago prīiska. [Berezovski]

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Zolotonosnai︠a︡ ri︠e︡chka Berezovka na Berezovskom prīiski︠e︡

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Zolotonosnai︠a︡ ri︠e︡chka Berezovka na Berezo...

In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 187. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Dobyvanīe zolotonosnago peska. [Berezovski]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Rabota starateleĭ. Berezovski, photographic p...

Woman and boy mining by a stream. In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 189. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress... More

Dry placer mining at Orogrande

Photograph shows a group of men standing around entrance of cave observing man using dry washer. No. 1460. Spriggs Bros. & Wherry, Orogrande, N.M.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Dobyvanīe zolotonosnago peska. Berezovski, ph...

In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 190. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Men at work inside a mine. Idaho Springs, Co.

Photograph shows miners working by candlelight inside pit; man, atop ledge in back of shaft, stands next to mine car.

Portrait photo of Rabota starateleĭ. [Berezovski]

Woman and boy mining by a stream. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Staratelʹskīi︠a︡ raboty na r. Berezovki︠e︡. B...

In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 193. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Staratelʹskīi︠a︡ raboty na r. Berezovki︠e︡. [Berezovski]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Staratelʹskīi︠a︡ raboty okolo Berezovskago pr...

In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 188. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Flere hus av leire og tre og med stråtak står på rekke på savannen i T...

Flere hus av leire og tre og med stråtak står på rekke på savannen i Tanganyika Territories.