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Description
Attributed to William Shew by collector Zelda Mackay. No evidence is present, and her assigned date of 1849 (itself suspect) is prior to Shew's 1851 arrival in California. View of thirty-nine miners working in rocky riverbed. Some mining equipment visible (cradles, shovels, and a structure at left). Figure in white suspenders has been identified as William Pickett.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 10.2 x 13.5 cm.
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