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Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library

Owning Institution: California State Library

About this Collection

78 cased photographs selected from the collections of the California State Library. Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from the late 1840s to the mid-1860s. Subject matter is chiefly portraits of California pioneers and mining scenes, mining districts, and towns of the California gold rush. View collection guide.

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