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Title
[Near 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-0105
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #6: NEAR 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 ten miners standing on or near a sluice on a hillside; large log at right; cabins in background.
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 #6: Near Nevada City, 1852". Accession #s 1994-0341 through 1994-0343 and 2000-0122 through 2000-0125.
Negatives, No. 915 (4 x 5 in.) B/W, and 26,272a-f (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)001379268CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2521
Subject
Gold miners--California--Nevada County
Gold mining--California--Nevada County
Sluices--California--Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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