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Title: [Head of Auburn Ravine, 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.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #3: HEAD OF AUBURN RAVINE, 1852 C
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines & Mining: Gold: Scene from Daguerreotypes #3: Head of Auburn Ravine, 1852". Accession #'s 1994-324 through 1994-328; 2000-0082 through 2000-0087.
Negatives, No.912 (4x5 in.) b/w and color transparency; No. 26,269a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
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/tf3x0n99h8
DAG-0102
Subject: Sluices--California--Placer County
Gold mining--California--Auburn Ravine
Gold miners--California--Auburn Ravine
Chinese--Portraits
Gold mining
Gold Miners
Place: Placer County (Calif.)
Photographs.
Auburn Ravine (Calif.)

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