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Title: [In Auburn Ravine, 1852]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1852]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: DAG-0101
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #2: IN AUBURN RAVINE, 1852.
Attributed to Joseph B. Starkweather.
Image package: Plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative.
Case: leather (hinge broken); 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Motif: geometric, Pad: embossed red velvet.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File.
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.
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 1994-323; 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.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : daguerreotype, quarter plate ; visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8.
Identifier: (C)001379048CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2298
Subject: Gold mining--California--Auburn Ravine
Gold miners--California--Auburn Ravine
Women--Clothing & dress
Auburn Ravine (Calif.)--Photographs
Placer County (Calif.)--Photographs
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place: California
Auburn Ravine
Auburn Ravine (Calif.)
Placer County (Calif.)

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