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Yuba County Jail mug shot photographs of Chinese miners [graphic].
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Title:

Yuba County Jail mug shot photographs of Chinese miners

Creator/Contributor:

Yuba County Jail, creator

Abstract:

Includes mug shot photographs of Chinese miners convicted of hydraulic mining and sentenced to prison terms at the Yuba County Jail. Photographs bear various dates from 1887. Names include: Hop Mow, Ah Sung, Ah Fung, Ah Wang, Ah Jin, Ah Mow, Hop Wang, Ah Yat, Ah Suey, Ah Wah and Ah Yow. Crime recorded for each prisoner: hydraulick [sic].

Date:

1887 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Miners -- California -- Photographs
Chinese -- California -- Photographs
Hydraulic mining -- California -- Yuba County

Note:

Printed forms on verso, filled out in ms., provide names, dates, crime, and sentence.
Prisoner names also appear in ms in negative.
Title devised by cataloger.
Yuba County Jail mug shot photographs of Chinese miners, BANC PIC 2002.174, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Identification photographs.
Cartes de visite.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
1 folder (11 photographic prints on carte de visite mounts) : albumen ; 11 x 6 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California