Sutters Mill (3 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Ilust Sutter's Mill,coloma (illustrator). 1st Edition?. Good Cond, ENDPAPER HINGES WEAK/WORN Green Clothbnd; 201+pg pages; Includes APENDIX; JOAQUIN MURIETA (lengthy) & Gold Productin of el dorado county FOR 1880-1904. .Signed By Author.David Upton and Family Indian Diggings, Cal. (from their sincere friend, Charles Elmer Upton) . July 9, 1908" inner front cover. . .HAS PHOTOS OF MARSHALL MONUMENT; PLACERVILLE-HANGTOWN; SALMON FALLS; P'VILL MAIN STREET; FALLLEN LEAF LAKE.; Signed by Author.

Condition: Good. 18mo. Post Card, Very Good, minor creasing, some staining. Illustrated. Letterpress on laid paper. May 19-21, 1967. Illustrations on both sides by artist Rick Griffin.

Very good. Signed and dated by Mathis. Size 15.25 x 10.75 Inches. Promoting both Gold Rush history and local businesses, this is a 1969 George Mathis pictorial map of Sutter's Sawmill and vicinity, where the California Gold Rush began. A Closer Look Centered on Coloma, California, Sutter's Sawmill (where gold was first discovered launching the California Gold Rush) appears to the right and above the word 'Coloma'. Mines, the few surviving buildings from the Gold Rush, and local businesses are identified. Among the local businesses are restaurants, several antique stores, and Gold Nugget Jewelry with 'guaranteed gold panning'. Friday House, Mathis' home and art gallery, is labeled. Captions provide tidbits of historical context on how Coloma became the community they see before them. The California Gold Rush The discovery of gold at John Sutter's mill by James Wilson Marshall (1810 - 1885) in January of 1848 was one of the most definitive moments in American history. Coming at the end of the Mexican-American War (1846 - 1848), the timing of the discovery could not have been more propitious. The combination of new seemly unlimited territory and the lure of gold led to a stampede of adventurers, prospectors, merchants, and homesteaders eager for a new life on the frontier. The Gold Rush was not limited to Americans crossing the Great Plains. European, Australian, and even Chinese immigrants rushed into California hungry for their part of the great strike. This Great Migration transformed the United States in the span of just a few years from a former colony into an expansive transcontinental nation on the cusp of becoming a world power. Publication History and Census This map was created and published by George Mathis from his studio at Friday House in Coloma, California, in 1969. This is the only known cataloged example in the present format. An edition appeared at auction in 2019 with one side featuring the Sierra Nevada House III menu (a restaurant in town labeled here). The present example bears Mathis's signature, along with the date February 22, 1970, making it a wonderful find relating to a celebrated artist of the Mother Lode.