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Title
[Nevada City, 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-0104
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES # 5: NEVADA CITY, 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.
View of one-story, wooden buildings along creek in foreground; "Empire" on one building at right; "E. Cook & Co." on building in center; church at upper left; trees and hill in distance.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & mining: Gold: Scenes from Daguerreotypes #5: Nevada City, 1852". Accession #s 1994-0335 through 1994-0340 and 2000-0119 through 2000-0121.
Negatives, No. 914 (4x5 in.) B/W; 26,271a-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)001379266CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2519
Subject
Buildings--California--Nevada City
Churches--California--Nevada City
Nevada City (Calif.)--Photographs
Daguerreotypes
Photographic prints
Place
California
Nevada City
Nevada City (Calif.)

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