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Title
[View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River, with Harvey Myron Sampson and Jeremiah Sampson.]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1854]
Publication Information
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Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections
Rights Information
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Description
Tarnish lines from three cracks in original cover glass are visible on the bottom half of the plate.
Image includes three men and a horse and cart. Men work at the base a high embankment, and the two-wheeled cart has been backed up to the edge of the bank above them. A sluice box and a cradle or rocker are visible in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.4 cm.
Form/Genre
Daguerreotypes
Landscapes
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0000z0g5m
BANC PIC 1969.040--CASE
brk00040285_8a.tif
Subject
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Carts & wagons
Tools
Sluices

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