Title:
[Portrait of 23 miners at sluice]
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Identifier:
DAG-0157
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Content/Description:
View of 23 gold miners posed with shovels next to sluices on rocky hillside. William Chapman believed to be one of the miners
in the background at the right.
Image Package Note:
Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured rectangular (double elliptical).
Case or Exterior Container Note:
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 6 x 4 ¾ in. Pad: faded red silk. Notes: case unhinged,
leather deteriorating.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: CHAPMAN, WM. O.(?) & UNIDENTIFIED MINERS C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Chapman, William O.";
accession numbers 1994-0099 through 1994-0104, and a positive photostat. Also have negative photostat under "Mines and mining:
Gold: Methods: Sluicing".
Negatives, No. 24,094a-g (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Subjects:
Chapman, William--Portraits.
Tools.
Gold mining--California.
Sluices--California.
Gold miners--California.
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering).
Genre/Format:
Landscapes.
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.