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Title: [Portrait of 23 miners at sluice]
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, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured rectangular (double elliptical).
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 6 x 4 ¾ in. Pad: faded red silk. Notes: case unhinged, leather deteriorating.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: CHAPMAN, WM. O.(?) & UNIDENTIFIED MINERS C
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Chapman, William O."; accession numbers 1994-0099 through 1994-0104, and a positive photostat. Also have negative photostat under "Mines and mining: Gold: Methods: Sluicing".
Negatives, No. 24,094a-g (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4b69n6jd
DAG-0157
Subject: Tools
Gold mining--California
Sluices--California
Gold miners--California
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)

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