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Title: [Spanish Flat, 1852]
Creator: Starkweather, Joseph B., photographer (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 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 3 ¾ in. Pad: embossed red faux-velvet. Notes: case unhinged.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #1: SPANISH FLAT, 1852. C
Copy prints available for viewing, filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scenes from Daguerreotypes #1, Spanish Flat, Calif., 1852". Accession #'s 1994-312 through 1994-317; 2000-0070 through 2000-0074.
Negatives, No. 918 (4x5 in. and 8x10 in.) B/W; No. 26,267a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Neg. 918 & 26,267a-i
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1m3n97xx
DAG-0100
Subject: Gold mining--California--Spanish Flat
Gold miners--California--Spanish Flat
Carts & wagons--California--Spanish Flat
African Americans--Portraits
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)
Gold mining
Gold Miners
Place: Spanish Flat (Calif.)
Photographs.

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