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Title: John Rollin Ridge
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: DAG-0359
PHOTO: DAGUERREOTYPE-V: RIDGE, JOHN ROLLIN
Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: plain oval brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: leather; 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. Motif: floral. Pad: embossed red velvet.
Restricted original.
Bust-length portrait of journalist and poet, John Rollin Ridge with longish hair and a beard and mustache; considered the first Native American novelist; also known as Yellow Bird and Cheesquatalawny.
Type: image
Format: Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : daguerreotype, sixth plate ; visible image 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001387765CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1063
Subject: Ridge, John Rollin,, 1827-1867
Authors
Gold miners--California
Photographic prints
Portraits
Daguerreotypes
Place: California

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