Two coleminers with helmets
Two woodcutters
A clockmaker
Miners
Two forty-niners
Two Carpenters with Tools
Boy Apprentice Blacksmith
Lumber Wagon
Ironmen
12 Miners
A carpenter
Azariah Smith (1826-1912)
Craftsmen (blacksmith, carpentry, leather, etc.)
Shoemaker
Saddle maker
Cooper with Barrel
John Sutter (1803-1880)
Member of the “Mormon Brigade” sent by Brigham Young to participate in the Mexican War. This takes him to the west coast where he provides a first-hand chronical of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill. He later returns to home in Salt Lake City.
Lumberjack
Visitors in western gold mine country
Lumbermen
Sutter’s dreams of founding a “New Helvetia” near Sacramento are dashed when gold is found in 1848, California is overrun by mining squatters and his pleas to ownership of the land are rejected.
Cobblers
Photography Book
2 Boys with Shoeshine Kit
A tree cutter with his axe and gear
Town blacksmith
Two rugged anthracite coal miners from Lykens, Pennsylvania. Headgear is a soft cap with leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. Leather belt for gear, lunch pails and sturdy boots.
Carpenters
Occupationals (Continued)
Pike's Peak mule train/miners
Iron workers
Farrier
Iron workers
The same fellow dressed up alongside his wife