Title:

[Joseph Sharp, with a pick axe, pan and gun.]

Description:

Half length portrait, seated, with hand on hip, in a black "wideawake" hat, with revolver tucked at belt. The asymmetrical necktie indicates a date ca. 1850 [cf. Severa, Dressed for the Photographer, p.121], but the ambrotype process dates to 1854.

Date:

[ca. 1855]

Contributing Institution:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library