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-0103 DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #4: AUBURN RAVINE IN 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. This image has occassionally been published bearing the title "Andy at the sluice box", which appears to have originated with copy photographs captioned in the 1920s by California historian Albert Dressler. The subject's name is not known. Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File. View of African American gold miner holding a shovel at sluice box. Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scenes from Daguerreotypes #4: Auburn Ravine in 1852". Accession #s 1994-0329 through 1994-0334 and 2000-0088 through 2000-0091. Negatives, No. 913 (4x5 in.) B/W; 26,270a-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)001379055CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-2306
Subject
Sluices--California--Placer County Gold miners--California--Placer County African Americans--Portraits Gold mining--California--Placer County Auburn Ravine (Calif.)--Photographs Daguerreotypes Portraits Photographic prints
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