COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL20090845
Reference Number:
R198989
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Front cover
Parent Work Title:
Gold! Klondike!!: exhibition of working gold mine at Lewis's: quartz mining.
Date Created:
19th century [late?]
Publication Details:
Manchester: for Lewis's
Page/Sheet:
[1]
Image Sequence Number:
001
Description:
Front cover of the exhibition programme for the Gold! Klondike!! Exhibition of .. Working Gold Mine at Lewis's. The exhibit was a model of the Saratoga Gold Mine, Gilpin County, Colorado, invented and patented by William Keast, who worked at the mine for six and a half years. It was exhibited at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893, and at the Mid-Winter Fair, San Francisco, 1894. Keast then brought the model to Europe where it was exhibited at the Royal Aquarium in London, the Cardiff Exhibition, and at Glasgow. It was shown in the subterranean mining exhibition in the Trocadero Palace at the Paris Exposition of 1900; see NAMHO (National Association of Mining History Associations) newsletter June 2010 and March 2011. No date given. Date of exhibition presumed to be between 1894 when the model was brought to Great Britain, and 1900 when it moved to Paris.
Language Code:
eng-GB
Language:
English
Subject:
Exhibitions
Subject:
Gold mines and mining
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Pamphlets
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
England: Greater Manchester: Manchester
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
United States: Colarado: Gilpin
People Covered:
Keast, William
Item Height:
220 mm
Item Width:
140 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2020-09-07
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2020-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands
Front cover
