Title:
[Spanish Flat, 1852]
Creator/Contributor:
Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to) (photographer)
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Identifier:
DAG-0100
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.
Content/Description:
View of four men, two miners at work on a long tom (one man is an Afro-American), one man in a wagon, one man standing behind
the wagon.
Image Package Note:
Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative.
Case or Exterior Container Note:
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ in. Pad: embossed red faux-velvet. Notes:
case unhinged.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #1: SPANISH FLAT, 1852. C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing, filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scenes from Daguerreotypes #1,
Spanish Flat, Calif., 1852". Accession #'s 1994-312 through 1994-317; 2000-0070 through 2000-0074.
Negatives, No. 918 (4x5 in. and 8x10 in.) B/W; No. 26,267a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
General Note:
Neg. 918 & 26,267a-i
Subjects:
Spanish Flat (Calif.)--Photographs.
Gold mining--California--Spanish Flat.
Gold miners--California--Spanish Flat.
Carts & wagons--California--Spanish Flat.
African Americans--Portraits.
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering).
Gold mining.
Gold Miners.
Genre/Format:
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.