This photo gallery contains the following images:
- Sutter’s Mill- Where gold was first discovered in California in January, 1848
- Carpenter James W. Marshall
- John Augustus Sutter – Founder of Nueva Helvetia and Sutter’s Fort (present-day Sacramento, CA)
- Map of U.S.- Mexican Cession of 1848, following the Mexican-American War
- Map of California’s Goldfields – the location of the “Mother Lode” during the Gold Rush. Sierra Nevada Mountain range
- Map showing the locations of Sutter’s Mill, Sutter’s Fort, San Francisco, and the American River
- Map showing the Oregon Trail and California Trail
- Samuel Brannan – California’s first millionaire
- Gold
- Compromise of 1850 Map – When California became a state
- San Francisco – 1851
- Advertisement for Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and U.S. Mail Steamship Company
- Illustration of the Taiping Rebellion in China
- Chinese miners
- Miners at Coloma – 1850
- Map of mining towns in California during the Gold Rush
- President James K. Polk
- Wells Fargo Stagecoach
- Illustration of Sutter and Marshall testing gold samples
- Photograph of miner “panning” for gold – an example of “placer mining”
- Illustration of a miner using a “rocker”
- Illustration of miners operating a “long tom”
- Image of “hydraulic mining” used during the Gold Rush
- Evidence of hydraulic mining damage can still be viewed in California today. This image is from Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
- Example of a dam built for hydraulic mining
- Political cartoon illustrating the animosity towards foreign ethnic groups during the Gold Rush
- Native Americans living in California suffered greatly during the Gold Rush
