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Description
Identified as "Hard Rock Miners" by collector, this misleading title may have been used in publications or exhibitions in the past. It is clearly a riverbed or placer mining scene, and not "hard-rock" mining, which implies underground tunnelling. Also, the noted date of 1849 almost certainly refers to the gold rush of '49 in a general sense rather than an exact image date. Mining scene showing 5 men working with shovels and a pulley system to lift large boulders. Two of the workmen's shirts have decorative buttons[?] on the front.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 8.7 x 12 cm.
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