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981 San Francisco Gold Rush Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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Steamer leaves San Francisco bound for Alaska

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Chinese people panning for gold in mine San Francisco California USA 1862

The harbour of San Francisco during the California Gold Rush, when its population was around 25,000.

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Man digging for gold on riverbank at mine San Francisco California USA 1862

Large number of ships fill San Francisco Harbor during the California Gold Rush, San Francisco, California, 1851. Note: Image has been digitally...

SF Harbor During Gold Rush

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Man digging for gold in mine San Francisco California USA 1862

Gold rush California 1848-1854: View of San Francisco , city and bay during the time of the gold rushabout 1849wood engraving, 19th cent.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: View of San Francisco , city and bay during the time of the gold rushabout 1849wood engraving, 19th cent.

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California Symbols Travel

Historical view of San Francisco harbor; half-plate daguerreotype, 1851. Thought to be by the daguerrian photographer Sterling C McIntyre.

View Of San Francisco Harbor

Gold rush California 1848-1854: San Francisco in its bonanza period . Gold diggers queue in front of the post office. 1849woodcut of A. Gastaigne,...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: San Francisco in its bonanza period . Gold diggers queue in front of the post office. 1849woodcut of A. Gastaigne, 1891

Life in the Gold Mines, California , lithograph on blue paper from a photograph by Fishbourne & Gow, San Francisco, 1850s, 27.8 x 22 cm.

Life in the Gold Mines, California

Vintage illustration of Chinese immigrants and gold miners in San Francisco in 1849, with a saloon, hotel, and general store; lithograph, 1926.

Miners Of The 1849 Gold Rush

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Voyagers crossing the middleamerican isthmus in order to embark at the pacific coast for San Francisco. Refreshment...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Voyagers crossing the middleamerican isthmus in order to embark at the pacific coast for San Francisco. Refreshment at an indian hut. wood engraving, 19th cent.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Store-ship 'Apollo' at ther quai of San Francisco harbour. 1850Lithograph of a contemp. Drawing.

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Store-ship 'Apollo' at ther quai of San Francisco harbour. 1850Lithograph of a contemp. drawing.

View of San Francisco and San Francisco Bay color lithograph by P.S. Duval & Company, Philadelphia, c. 1850, from the series "Sights in the Gold...

San Francisco Bay in 1850

Market place in San Francisco, California, USA, mid 19th century . The discovery of gold in 1848 and the ensuing California gold rush caused San...

A market place in San Francisco, California, USA, mid 19th century (c1880).

Chinese woman washing auriferous sands, San Francisco, United States of America, drawing by Chassevent after a Californian engraving, from Travels in...

Chinese woman washing auriferous sands

Illustration showing a gambling scene during the Gold Rush, San Francisco, California, 1850.

Gambling In San Francisco

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San Francisco 49ers legend Jerry Rice is inducted into the 49ers Hall Of Fame and his plaque is on display next to a Gold Rush cheerleader as the...

NFL: SEP 20 Saints at 49ers

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California Travels

Wagons and cable cars crowd through Montgomery Street. Montgomery Street sits roughly on the former shoreline of Yerba Buena Cove, which was filled...

Wagon and Cable Car Traffic on Montgomery Street, San Francisco

Telegraph Hill rises steeply up from the city streets below. Named for the semaphore installed on it in 1850 to notify downtown merchants of ship...

Telegraph Hill With Growing City Below It

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Booming San Francisco : Rain and mud in the streets Wood engraving - Cartoon of 1850s

Gold rush California 1848-1854: Booming San Francisco : Rain and mud in the streets Wood engraving - Cartoon of 1850s

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People crossing Sierra Nevada searching for gold in San Francisco

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Man with donkey crushing stones looking for gold California 1862

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Men working at gold mine San Francisco California USA 1862

Bird's eye view from the tower of the Chronicle Building, San Francisco, USA, 1895. In the mid 19th century the city expanded rapidly due to the...

Birds Eye View From The Tower Of The Chronicle Building

Gold rush California 1848-1854: After landing at Aspinwall , Panama, voyagers to California take the newly inaugurated Panama Railroad to cross the...

Gold rush California 1848-1854: After landing at Aspinwall (laterCd. Colon) , Panama, voyagers to California take the newly inaugurated Panama Railroad to cross the isthmus in order to embark on the pacific coast side for San Francisco, 1855/56. wood

Colour print of San Francisco, formally Yerba Buena during the 1840s, prior to the discovery of gold. Dated 1884 Photo by:

San Francisco's Chinatown was the port of entry for early Hoisanese and Zhongshanese Chinese immigrants from the Guangdong province of southern China...

Two Chinese men in a San Francisco opium den.

Lithograph by Schmidt Label and Lithograph Co. Depicts a sparsely populated San Francisco, its harbor full of sailing ships in 1849 when the Gold...

San Francisco, 1849 by Schmidt Label and Lithograph

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Cartoon map of California

Bird's eye view of the city of San Francisco, from somewhere over the San Francisco Bay. This map provides a good picture of the city between the...

Bird's Eye View of San Francisco

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Cartoon map of California

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Man with pick axe crossing Sierra Nevada searching for gold in San Francisco California USA 1862

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People crossing Sierra Nevada wanting digging for gold in San Francisco

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People digging for gold in mine San Francisco California USA 1862

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Cartoon map of California

Map of the counties of California around the San Francisco Bay in 1851, during the Gold Rush, which had started in 1849. Towns and gold camps are...

Northern California Counties During the Gold Rush

The San Francisco 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders during an NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears at Levi's Stadium in...

NFL: SEP 14 Bears at 49ers

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Cartoon map of California

San Francisco in November 1858 and the end of the 19th century, . San Francisco grew dramatically after the discovery of gold in California in 1849...

San Francisco in November, 1848, 1858 and the end of the 19th century, (1901).

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Redwood National Park, California Map

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Point Reyes National Park, California Map

View of a scene in a lodging house for recently arrived migrants to California, often comprised of men hoping to strike it rich in gold mining, mid...

The San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders, the Gold Rush, cheer for their team before their game against the Chicago Bears at Candlestick Park on November...

Chicago Bears v San Francisco 49ers

Illustration shows a group of miners as they gamble with their earnings, San Francisco, California, 1850. From 'Frost's Pictorial History of...

Gambling Scene In San Francisco

The Fremont Hotel, San Francisco, [USA]; from a recent sketch, 1850. The 1849 Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure-seekers to California. 'The...

California: The Fremont Hotel

Members of the Gold Rush cheerleaders walk onto the field before the San Francisco 49ers vs. Chicago Bears NFL game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara,...

Members of the Gold Rush cheerleaders walk onto the field before the San Francisco 49ers vs. Chicago Bears NFL game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Starting with the California Gold Rush in the late 19th century, the United StatesÑparticularly the West Coast statesÑimported large numbers of...

USA: 'The Great Fear of the PeriodÑThat Uncle Sam May be Swallowed by Foreigners'. Anti-Chinese, anti-Irish racist cartoon, San Francisco, White & Bauer Lithographers, late 1860s

Starting with the California Gold Rush in the late 19th century, the United StatesÑparticularly the West Coast statesÑimported large numbers of...

USA / China: 'What Shall We Do With Our Boys?'. Racist magazine 'The Wasp' attacking Chinese migrant labour in the United States. San Francisco, 1885

Gold Rush congregations of San Francisco celebrating their 150th anniversary. First Baptist Church at Market and Octavia Sts. San Francisco....

BAPTIST 04-C-16NOV99-MN-MAC Gold Rush congregations of San Francisco celebrating their 150th anniversary. First Baptist Church at Market and Octavia Sts. San Francisco. Photograph of the original church in 1849, was located on Washington st.

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California Symbols

California 'Gold Miner' & Prominent Western Gold Rush Gentlemen Ca. 1850's. California 'Gold Miner' & Prominent Western Gold Rush Gentlemen Ca. 1850S.

California 'Gold Miner'

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Gold rush men panning for gold in gold mine California US illustration

The San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders, the Gold Rush, in action prior to their game against the Arizona Cardinals at Candlestick Park on December 14,...

Arizona Cardinals v San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders, the Gold Rush, in action prior to their game against the Arizona Cardinals at Candlestick Park on December 14,...

Arizona Cardinals v San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders, the Gold Rush, in action prior to their game against the Arizona Cardinals at Candlestick Park on December 14,...

Arizona Cardinals v San Francisco 49ers

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