Title:
[Ford's Hotel and cigar wagon]
Date:
[between 1858 and 1860]
Identifier:
DAG-0112
Format:
1 photograph : ambrotype ; half plate, visible image 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
Content/Description:
View of two men and a dog on a horse-drawn wagon with sign for "cigars" in front of Ford's Hotel, a two-story building with
porch at first and second floors; a third man in front of the horse at right. Sign on hotel reads: "Stage line for Stockton".
Image Package Note:
Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.
Case or Exterior Container Note:
Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 6 x 4 ¾ in. Pad: embossed purple velvet.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: PLACER CO.: FORD'S BAR: HOTELS: FORD'S HOTEL C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under : Placer Co.: Ford's Bar: Hotels: Ford's Hotel"; accession
numbers 2000-0174 through 2000-0181.
Negatives, No. 6,996a-j (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Subjects:
Pioneers--California.
Hotels--California--Ford's Bar.
Ford's Bar (Calif.)--Photographs.
Carts & wagons--California--Ford's Bar.
Carriages & coaches.
Mining districts.
Commercial buildings.
Genre/Format:
Ambrotypes.