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ca. 1850
HGO-01-004-A-5 [Drawer 39 in old database]
GUSN-253730
Daguerreotype features four four gold miners shown amid shacks and mining equipment. They are using a piece of equipment known as a "long tom" that sieves river or lake water from the sand and gold contained in it. Copy Neg # 14744-B.
mining
exterior views
miners
occupations
portraits
group portraits
men (male humans)
portrait format
standing
gold (metal)
mining towns
workers
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
(encl) [note relating attributed history of image]
DagID 260
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D02.027
Gift
4 1/4 x 5 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 3/4 (HxWxD)(inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carey
California (United States)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
California Gold discoveries
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 127.
Item
HGO-01-004-A-5 [Drawer 39 in old database]
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