COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
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JCB Archive of Early American Images
Collection
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Accession number:
09187
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09187
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Record number:
09187-3
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09187-3
Record number
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JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE
jcb_call_no
J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE
JCB call number
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Image title:
Wie die Indianer das Goldt aus den Bergen graben.
image_title
Wie die Indianer das Goldt aus den Bergen graben.
Image title
false
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
place_image_published
[Frankfurt am Main]
Place image published
false
Image publisher:
[Wolffgang Richter]
image_publisher
[Wolffgang Richter]
Image publisher
false
Image date:
[1601]
image_date
[1601]
Image date
false
Image function:
illustration; pt. 3, plate 3
image_function
illustration; pt. 3, plate 3
Image function
false
Technique:
engraving
technique
engraving
Technique
false
Image dimension height:
14.8 cm.
image_dimensions_height
14.8 cm.
Image dimension height
false
Image dimension width:
19 cm.
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19 cm.
Image dimension width
false
Page dimension height:
35.3 cm.
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35.3 cm.
Page dimension height
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Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
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23.3 cm.
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false
Materials medium:
ink
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ink
Materials medium
false
Materials support:
paper
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paper
Materials support
false
Languages:
German
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German
Languages
false
Description:
Method by which native Americans mined precious metals from the mountain. Men climb up and down a ladder carrying ore from the mines. Other men hold lights and use pickaxes to extract the ore. In the background men herd llamas, taking the metal to a watermill.
description
Method by which native Americans mined precious metals from the mountain. Men climb up and down a ladder carrying ore from the mines. Other men hold lights and use pickaxes to extract the ore. In the background men herd llamas, taking the metal to a watermill.
Description
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Source Title:
[America. Pt 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae ...
source_title
[America. Pt 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae ...
Source Title
false
Source place of publication:
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
source_place_of_publication
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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false
Source publisher:
Bey Wolffgang Richter
source_publisher
Bey Wolffgang Richter
Source publisher
false
Source date:
[1601]
source_date
[1601]
Source date
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notes:
Text describes mines at Potosí, in present-day Bolivia, the richest silver mines in the Americas. It describes how the natives worked about a hundred and fifty fathoms below the ground and carried the ore out by a series of double-sided ladders made from ox-hide and poles. This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. German.
notes
Text describes mines at Potosí, in present-day Bolivia, the richest silver mines in the Americas. It describes how the natives worked about a hundred and fifty fathoms below the ground and carried the ore out by a series of double-sided ladders made from ox-hide and poles. This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. German.
notes
false
Time Period:
1601-1650
time_period
1601-1650
Time Period
false
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
references_
Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
References
false
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
provenance_or_donor
Acquired before 1865.
Provenance/Donor
false
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
owner_and_copyright
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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false
geographic area:
Spanish America
geographic_areas
Spanish America
geographic area
false
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
subject_groups
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area
false
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
subject_groups
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Indians of South America
subject_heads
Indians of South America
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Silver mines and mining
subject_heads
Silver mines and mining
Subject headings
false