America's Gold Mine

Today, in 1848, gold was discovered in California at Sutter's Mill. 

The Libraries has quite a few titles which chronicle the rise and fall of John Augustus Sutter. 

But while perusing the Libraries' fabulous Galaxy of Images, some other gold-related items caught my eye, including this wonderful example from the trade literature collection, Kalamazoo Tank & Silo Co., ca. 1909, America's Gold Mine.

There is also the fabulous 16th century item on metallurgy and mining, from the Dibner Library, Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii, qvibu officia,instrumenta, machinae, ac omnnia deniq[ue] ad metalicam spectantia, non modo lucluentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies, sius locis insertas, aduenctis latinis, germanicisq[ue] appelationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, et clarius tradi non possint. Evisdem De aaimantibvs svbterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus: cum indicibus deuersis quicqiuid in opere tractatum est pulchré demonstrantibus, Basileae, H. Frobenivm et Nic. Episcopivm, 1561.

Many more images are also available from this publication.

Pure gold.—Elizabeth Periale