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-0102 DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #3: HEAD OF AUBURN RAVINE, 1852 Attributed to Joseph B. Starkweather. Image package: Plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative Case: leather; 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 seven miners standing next to a sluice box; three white miners standing to the left of the sluice, four Chinese miners standing on the right. Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scene from Daguerreotypes #3: Head of Auburn Ravine, 1852". Accession #'s 1994-324 through 1994-328; 2000-0082 through 2000-0087. Negatives, No.912 (4x5 in.) b/w and color transparency; No. 26,269a-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 in.
Identifier
(C)001379054CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-2305
Subject
Gold mining--California--Auburn Ravine Gold miners--California--Auburn Ravine Chinese--Portraits Sluices--California 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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