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Title
[Life at the mines, Park's Bar on the Yuba River, Yuba County, California in 1852]
Creator
[Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1890?]
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
Eight men sluice mining by small stream; several wooden houses on hill beyond.
Supplied title. Handwritten (on verso): Please make us a [salting?] good silver print of this, then I can destroy negatives both sizes, [amls?](signature?), for life in the mines. Handwritten note on separate label: Copy of the positive 1963.002.0305--B made from an 1852 daguerreotype, used for 1963.002.0305--A, drawing by Daggett.
Type
image
Format
Photograph on paper: cyanotype 16.5 x 19.2 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0z09p03x
BANC PIC 1963.002:0305:01 (enclosure)--A
Subject
California, Northern
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Miners
Mining
Settlements

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