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Title: Group of miners
Date Created and/or Issued: 1840-1860
circa 1850s
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Collection: Group of Miners
Rights Information: This item is in the public domain in the United States. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required. Upon request, digitized works can be removed from public view if there are rights issues that need to be resolved.
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Description: Plate has been enclosed in a contemporary mount. Group portrait of nine miners, all men. Four men stand at back, five men sit at front. Man at front right holds a book; two men sitting at front hold mining equipment, including a shovel. Portrait was probably taken between 1849 and 1860.
Group of miners, 1849-1860, DAG 9G; California Historical Society.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : daguerreotype in mount ; plate 15.5 x 20.5 cm.
Identifier: chs:1006
local: DAG-9G_01
Language: English
Subject: Gold mines and mining
Miners Group portraits
Place: California
Relation: null--DAG 9G--https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c81g0svc/

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