Title:
[Life at the mines, Park's Bar on the Yuba River, Yuba County, California in 1852]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[ca. 1890?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0305:01 (enclosure)--A
Format:
photograph on paper: cyanotype
16.5 x 19.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Eight men sluice mining by small stream; several wooden houses on hill beyond.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (on verso): Please make us a [salting?] good silver print of this, then I can destroy negatives
both sizes, [amls?](signature?), for life in the mines. Handwritten note on separate label: Copy of the positive 1963.002.0305--B
made from an 1852 daguerreotype, used for 1963.002.0305--A, drawing by Daggett.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Photographs