Title:
[Near Sugar Loaf Hill, 1852]
Creator/Contributor:
Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to) (photographer)
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Identifier:
DAG-0106
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Content/Description:
View of four miners standing near a sluice in front of a log cabin; one holding a pitch fork, one holding a shovel; hill and
trees in background.
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 #7: NEAR SUGAR LOAF HILL, 1852. C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines and mining: Gold: Scenes from daguerreotypes #7:
Near Sugar Loaf Hill, 1852; Accession #s 1994-0344 through 1994-0348 and 2000-0126 through 2000-0128.
Negatives, No. 916 (4x5 in.) B/W; 26,273a-h (4x5 in.) color, and color transparencies.
General Note:
Neg. 916
Subjects:
Cabins--California.
Tools.
Sluices--California--Nevada County.
Nevada County--Photographs.
Log cabins--California--Nevada County.
Gold mining--California--Nevada County.
Gold miners--California--Nevada County.
Mining districts.
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering).
Dwellings.
Gold mining.
Gold Miners.
Genre/Format:
Landscapes.
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.