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Cradle - Pearson Scott Foresman Archives

Cradle - Pearson Scott Foresman Archives

b/w line drawing of a cradle

Ye diggings. E-299-003 - A drawing of a group of people in the snow
Prospectors on beach in Nome, Alaska, October 3, 1899 -  ea9ed2098eac26d4d8799fd004f560f6

Prospectors on beach in Nome, Alaska, October 3, 1899 - ea9ed2098eac2...

The men in the photo are employing a method known as "cradling." Prospectors would shovel gravel onto the top of a "cradle" or "rocker" box and rock it back and forth to sift through the gravel through to the l... More

Prospectors on beach in Nome, Alaska, September 22, 1899 -  3254c0d20d2ee6b46415ccc48f641a46

Prospectors on beach in Nome, Alaska, September 22, 1899 - 3254c0d20d...

The men in the photo are employing a method known as "cradling." Prospectors would shovel gravel onto the top of a "cradle" or "rocker" box and rock it back and forth to sift through the gravel through to the l... More

Carleton E. Watkins with rocker box (gold mining) self-portrait, c. 1883 albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 2006 68Watkins-000002 (cropped)

Carleton E. Watkins with rocker box (gold mining) self-portrait, c. 18...

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery which has explicitly released this digital image under the CC0 license. (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.68)

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 2007 123WatkinsM-000001

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from...

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery which has explicitly released this digital image under the CC0 license. (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2007.123)

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 2006 68Watkins-000002

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from...

Carleton E. Watkins self-portrait, c. 1883, albumen silver print, from the National Portrait Gallery which has explicitly released this digital image under the CC0 license. (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.68)

Gold mining rocker box

Gold mining rocker box

Gold prospector pouring water through his "rocker," Pinos Altos, New Mexico. He was born in Fremont, Nebraska on Eugene Fields's death day and so was named Eugene by a romantically minded mother. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Four men using rocker to mine for gold on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 (HEGG 542)

Four men using rocker to mine for gold on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 ...

Original image in Hegg Album 30, page 32 . Nome Gold Rush. Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining equipment--Alaska--Nome; Beaches--Alaska--Nome Subjects (LCSH): A... More

Four men using rocker to mine for gold on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 (HEGG 148)

Four men using rocker to mine for gold on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 ...

Original image in Hegg Album 30, page 33 . Nome Gold Rush. Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining equipment--Alaska--Nome; Beaches--Alaska--Nome Subjects (LCSH): A... More

Prospectors rocking out gold on the beach at Bluff, Alaska, ca 1900 (HEGG 627)

Prospectors rocking out gold on the beach at Bluff, Alaska, ca 1900 (H...

Bluff, at the mouth of Daniels Creek, was established as a mining site in 1900 at the height of the Nome gold rush . Caption on image: "Rocking on the beach, at Bluff City" Original image in Hegg Album 29, p... More

Three miners using rocker to mine gold, vicinity of Nome, Alaska, ca 1900 (HESTER 153)

Three miners using rocker to mine gold, vicinity of Nome, Alaska, ca 1...

On verso of image: "Anvil mouth Nicola Gulch" No. 149 appears in lower right hand corner of image . Nome Gold Rush. Subjects (LCTGM): Gold mining equipment--Alaska--Nome; Gold miners--Alaska--Nome Subjects (... More

Woman and young boy using rocker to mine for gold on a Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 (HEGG 115)

Woman and young boy using rocker to mine for gold on a Nome beach, Ala...

*Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining equipment--Alaska--Nome; Beaches--Alaska--Nome; Women--Alaska--Nome; Boys--Alaska--Nome

Woman using rocker in mining operation on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 (HEGG 535)

Woman using rocker in mining operation on Nome beach, Alaska, ca 1900 ...

Caption on image: "Girl rocking out pin money on Nome beach" Original image in Hegg Album 30 page 2 . Nome Gold Rush. Subjects (LCTGM): Gold mining--Alaska--Nome; Women--Alaska--Nome; Gold mining equipment--... More

Henry Sandham - The Cradle - Drawing. Public domain image.

Henry Sandham - The Cradle - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows hydraulic mining for gold in California. Published in The Century illustrated monthly magazine; 1883 Jan., p. 325.[1]