Keywords: Gold Rush
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California Cultures
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Abstract: California Cultures documents California's rich history of diversity and multicultural contributions. This collection including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, works of art, oral histories, and other primary sources draws from Calispheres total content, and also features ... More »
Chinese in the Gold Rush Fall 2007
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Abstract: Chinese in the Gold Rush. From EPS 170: Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - Fall 2007 - Intersection of geological processes with American cultures in the past, present, and future. Overview of ethnogeology including traditional knowledge of sources and uses of earth materials and their cultural ... More »
Disaster
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Abstract: The people who came to California in search of gold were faced with the threat of disaster in every step of their journey. Many came by ship, even though shipwrecks were commonplace ? one set of lithographs depicts four shipwrecks that occurred within 60 days. Earthquakes were another fact of life in ... More »
Diversity in the Changing State
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Abstract: The Gold Rush had a tremendous impact on the population and culture of California. Before the Gold Rush, the population consisted mainly of Native Californians and Californios (settlers and landowners of mixed Spanish, Native Californian, and African descent). But gold fever brought people to California ... More »
Environmental Impact
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Abstract: The Gold Rush, positive for California in so many ways, had a devastating effect on the state's environment. Many of these problems were directly related to gold-mining technology. The process of hydraulic mining, which became popular in the 1850s, caused irreparable environmental destruction. Two images ... More »
Everyday Life and People
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Abstract: The images in this group offer a glimpse of daily life in California during the mid-1800s in big cities like San Francisco and in smaller, rural towns like Dixon and Nevada City. These photographs show some of the everyday people of the time, as well as the shops, saloons, and other establishments that ... More »
Growth of Cities
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Abstract: Cities up and down the state of California grew rapidly during the Gold Rush era. Some of these cities were veritable boomtowns: San Francisco, a small village in 1847, was a bustling city by 1849, just two years later. San Francisco's population boom even had an impact on its geography. One image from ... More »
Impact of the South Dakota Gold Rush on the Plain Indians Fall 2007
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Abstract: Impact of the South Dakota Gold Rush on the Plain Indians. From EPS 170: Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - Fall 2007 - Intersection of geological processes with American cultures in the past, present, and future. Overview of ethnogeology including traditional knowledge of sources and uses of ... More »
Murder and Mayhem
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Abstract: The Gold Rush era was marked by lawlessness: duels, murders in broad daylight, public hangings, jail breakouts, and vigilantism were everyday occurrences. The images in this group are a vivid record of those times. Included here are photographs of convicted murderers like James Egan, who was sent to ... More »
The California Gold Rush Fall 2007
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Abstract: The California Gold Rush. From EPS 170: Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - Fall 2007 - Intersection of geological processes with American cultures in the past, present, and future. Overview of ethnogeology including traditional knowledge of sources and uses of earth materials and their cultural ... More »
