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Title: Primitive mining; the rocker Calaveras Co., Cal., B 3542
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1883]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Watkins
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 1990-2306.
Self-portrait of Watkins in a white shirt in a miner's pose next to a sluice box, wheel barrow and shovel to the right, photographer's wagon along the road behind him.
Text on front of the card: Watkins' New Boudoir Series Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
Negative, no. 9,263 (4 x 5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on a boudoir card : albumen ; 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001386805CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0086
Language: English
Subject: Watkins, Carleton E.,, 1829-1916--Photographs
Photographers--California--Calaveras County
Prospecting equipment & supplies
Photographic apparatus & supplies
Calaveras County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Self-portraits
Place: California
Calaveras County
Calaveras County (Calif.)

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