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Title: [Auburn Ravine, 1852]
Creator: Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [1852]
Publication Information: California State Library
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative.
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 4 ¾ x 4 ¾ in. Pad: embossed red faux-velvet. Notes: case unhinged.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #4: AUBURN RAVINE IN 1852] C
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.
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 1920's by California historian Albert Dressler. The subject's name is not known.
Neg. 913 & 26,270a-I
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1f59n4g4
DAG-0103
Subject: Sluices--California--Placer County
Gold mining--California--Placer County
Gold miners--California--Placer County
African Americans--Portraits
Place: Auburn Ravine (Calif.)
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