Antique Mining

The VOC decided to gain a foothold in Palembang because of the rich gold deposits and pewter mining possibilities. On the engraving, we see the small fortress of 1.

**Economic Development**: The west coast states, particularly California, were developing rapidly. Agriculture, mining, and shipping were significant industries.

We are of the opinion that this could be a mining shanty town or perhaps a penal colony. We do not know the artist or the location of the scene in this painting.

Swedish porphyry was first discovered in 1731 in the valley of Älvdalen, but serious mining there was only begun some fifty years later.

This distinct kind of azurmalachite is only found just south of the U.S. border in the famed centuries-old mining area known as Milapillas in the Mexican northwestern state of Sonora...

The black marble comes from the the quarries of Belgium. The mining of black marble is very labor-intensive and blocks of marble are cleared with explosives.

Black's mural showed vignettes of Arizona from the covered wagon pioneers to the mining period and included the pony express days and the beginning of the cattle industry.

Probably his most important private houses include that of Richard Strauss with its generously glazed bay window and view of the Alps, and the country estate Schloss Wolfsbrunn built...

A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920.

The VOC decided to gain a foothold in Palembang because of the rich gold deposits and pewter mining possibilities. On the engraving, we see the small fortress of 1.

When he died, he was the oldest working artist on the Monterey Peninsula, having painted many coastal views and abandoned mining towns in pastel, oil and watercolor. From 1907 to 192...

There is an abundance of information about towns, settlements, ranches, and mineral resources, and dozens of mining districts are delineated and named. This map is one of the bes...

With decorative cartouche depicting people mining, fishing and deer hunting with a bow. Artists and Engravers: Following the long period of Dutch domination, the Homann family became...

Faro was the highest stake gambling game in the mining towns of the Old West, Virginia City and New York.

The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was a single stretch of train tracks running between North Wales and Shropshire, serving the mineral trains which left from the mining town of Wrexh...

The region was a major center for iron ore mining and steel production, which fueled its economic growth. 4.

Executed in industrial American country / rustic farmhouse style, attributed to the gold and silver mining and trade industry, of unusually large size, especially for a furniture mod...

However, her situation changed after her husband died after a mining accident, leaving her alone with her young son, Peter.

The Ojibwe are known for their birchbark canoes, birchbark scrolls, mining and trade in copper, as well as their cultivation of wild rice and maple syrup.

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

Historically, the area was known for forestry and the mining of ore deposits, but tourism has now become the primary industry, accounting for around 300,000 jobs.There are several ru...

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

Durham, the family acquired coal-mining interests. (1) C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, vol.

Durham, the family acquired coal-mining interests. (1) C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, vol.

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

The late 19th century was a time of rapid modernization in Japan, and such maps would have been crucial for various purposes, including mining, construction, and educational purposes...

His grandson, John Caldwell Calhoun (1843-1918), was a successful American businessman, landowner and managing director of the Baltimore Coal Mining and Railway Company. He married L...

Barium sulphate was mined in Cheshire for the next 40 years, bringing a wave of immigration to the town from miners of the Cornwall, England mining district. Oakley Hoopes Baily ( 18...

This was largely because the Industrial Revolution now had its effects on mining and engineering, and for a long time gave Britain a technological edge.

Louis, rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, mercantile, manufacturing, railroads, real estate and ri...

This map was published in 1859; after the Mexican-American War and during the height of gold prospecting and mining in the west and the influx of new settlers.

It is difficult to acquire whole geodes from this area due to the very hard basalt matrix that the geodes formed in and the tendency for the geode to crack open on its own either thr...

Following a connection with his brother Lyle who was a mining engineer, Teall then came to California and worked in the cinnabar mines in Middletown in Lake County along with his sec...

Durham, the family acquired coal-mining interests. (1) C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, vol.

In addition to Rome, hardstone cameos also became a specialty of Idar Oberstein, Germany, which had a long history with both the gem mining and cutting trade. In a shift away from t...

The Century Guild designed two stands and a pavilion at the Liverpool international exhibition of 1886, and Mackmurdo designed a pair of houses north of the city, circa 1880, and a s...

The Ashanti Kingdom's wealth was significantly based on gold-mining and trading in gold, as well as agriculture.