Title:
[Six miners with rocker, wheel barrows, picks, shovels and gold pans.]
Abstract:
Men stopping work to pose at mining site. Two display gold pans, one carries buckets balanced from a bar across his shoulders.
Several rockers or "cradles" are also displayed.
Date:
[ca. 1850]
Subject:
Men
Miners
Californios
Tools
Gold mines and mining--California--Photographs
Type:
Daguerreotypes
Group portraits
Physical Description:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 6.5 x 9 cm.
displayLabel="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Accompanying note (handwritten by collector Zelda Mackay): #627
Miners at Diggings, California, 1850. Notice real gold nugget in gold pan.;;;displayLabel="Image Package Note">Original component
parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: gold nugget hand colored. Mat: textured octagonal.;;;displayLabel="Container or Case
Note">Type: case. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm. Pad: purple velvet with embossed motif.
Notes: Eickmeyer style case, but with no patent statement.;;
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1905.16242:061--CASE
Filename:
brk00040046_8a.tif
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