Title:
[In Auburn Ravine, 1852]
Creator/Contributor:
Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to) (photographer)
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Identifier:
DAG-0101
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8.
Content/Description:
View of three men and one woman standing at sluice box on a creek; woman holding a picnic basket; men holding shovels; picks,
mining pans, and wooden buckets in front of the sluice box.
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 #2: IN AUBURN RAVINE, 1852. C.
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scenes from Daguerreotypes #2:
In Auburn Ravine, 1852". Accession #'s 1994-318 through 1994-223; 2000-0075 through 2000-0081.
Negatives, No.911 (4x5 and 8x10 in.) B/W; No. 26,268a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
General Note:
Neg. 911 & 26,268a-i
Subjects:
Women--Clothing & dress.
Sluices--California--Placer County.
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs.
Gold mining--California--Auburn Ravine.
Gold miners--California--Auburn Ravine.
Auburn Ravine (Calif.)--Photographs.
Women.
Men.
Gold mining.
Gold Miners.
Genre/Format:
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.