Title: The Miner's Ten Commandments Author: Place: Placerville, CA Publisher: James M. Hutchings Date: [c.1854] Description: Eleven wood-engraved vignettes surrounding three columns of text, with blank page attached. 28.5x23.3 cm. (11¼x9¼"), double sheet of blue laid paper. Sheet most likely sent from Stockton, Hub of the Southern Mines. Addressed to Shermon E Adams Esq. Westfield, Mass. The Miners Ten Commandments was the first of many letter sheets Hutchings published, and its basic format of including multiple vignettes on one page was used on several letter sheets. Hutchings wrote the commandments in the late spring of 1853. At the time, it was common in Placerville, as in other mining towns, for miners to conduct business and work on Sundays. Classic letter sheet. The vignettes are: Top, center: Elephant points with trunk at sign for Ten Commandent [sic] on cabin; miner looks on. At sides and bottom, other vignettes: No. I.: miner holding shovel aloft, staking claim; another miner nearby; No. II.: miner “jumping a claim,” other miners in background; No. III.: a gambling “hell,” woman and children standing plaintively in doorway; No. IV.: miners at Sunday tasks; No. V.: peaceful domestic scene in miner’s former home; No. VI.: men drinking in a rude tavern; No. VII.: men discouraged at lack of results from panning; No. VIII: men by a stream; hanged man, across stream; No. IX.: two miners, foreground; man being shot, background; No. X.: courtship and/or marriage Lot Amendments Condition: With original mailing folds, some wear and chipping at lower edge; letter sheet postage stamp removed, leaving just a trace of the 10c green; very good. Item number: 305201
Title: The Miner's Ten Commandments Author: Place: Placerville, CA Publisher: James M. Hutchings Date: [c.1854] Description: Eleven wood-engraved vignettes surrounding three columns of text, with blank page attached. 28.5x23.3 cm. (11¼x9¼"), double sheet of blue laid paper. Sheet most likely sent from Stockton, Hub of the Southern Mines. Addressed to Shermon E Adams Esq. Westfield, Mass. The Miners Ten Commandments was the first of many letter sheets Hutchings published, and its basic format of including multiple vignettes on one page was used on several letter sheets. Hutchings wrote the commandments in the late spring of 1853. At the time, it was common in Placerville, as in other mining towns, for miners to conduct business and work on Sundays. Classic letter sheet. The vignettes are: Top, center: Elephant points with trunk at sign for Ten Commandent [sic] on cabin; miner looks on. At sides and bottom, other vignettes: No. I.: miner holding shovel aloft, staking claim; another miner nearby; No. II.: miner “jumping a claim,” other miners in background; No. III.: a gambling “hell,” woman and children standing plaintively in doorway; No. IV.: miners at Sunday tasks; No. V.: peaceful domestic scene in miner’s former home; No. VI.: men drinking in a rude tavern; No. VII.: men discouraged at lack of results from panning; No. VIII: men by a stream; hanged man, across stream; No. IX.: two miners, foreground; man being shot, background; No. X.: courtship and/or marriage Lot Amendments Condition: With original mailing folds, some wear and chipping at lower edge; letter sheet postage stamp removed, leaving just a trace of the 10c green; very good. Item number: 305201
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