Title:
[Head of Auburn Ravine, 1852]
Creator/Contributor:
Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to) (photographer)
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Identifier:
DAG-0102
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Content/Description:
View of seven miners standing next to a sluice box; three white miners standing to the left of the sluice, four Chinese miners
standing on the right.
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.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #3: HEAD OF AUBURN RAVINE, 1852 C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scene from Daguerreotypes #3:
Head of Auburn Ravine, 1852". Accession #'s 1994-324 through 1994-328; 2000-0082 through 2000-0087.
Negatives, No.912 (4x5 in.) b/w and color transparency; No. 26,269a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Subjects:
Sluices--California--Placer County.
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs.
Gold mining--California--Auburn Ravine.
Gold miners--California--Auburn Ravine.
Chinese--Portraits.
Auburn Ravine (Calif.)--Photographs.
Gold mining.
Gold Miners.
Genre/Format:
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.