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Title
[Near Sugar Loaf Hill, 1852]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1852]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
DAG-0106
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SCENES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES #7: NEAR SUGAR LOAF HILL, 1852.
Attributed to Joseph B. Starkweather.
Image package: Plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative.
Case: leather (hinge broken); 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Motif: geometric. Pad: embossed red velvet.
View of 4 miners standing near a sluice in front of a log cabin; one holding a pitch fork, one holding a shovel; hill and trees in background.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Photograph File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Photograph File under "Mines and mining: Gold: Scenes from daguerreotypes #7: Near Sugar Loaf Hill, 1852; Accession #s 1994-0344 through 1994-0348 and 2000-0126 through 2000-0128.
Negatives, No. 916 (4x5 in.) B/W; 26,273a-h (4x5 in.) color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype, quarter plate ; visible image 2 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001379269CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2522
Subject
Gold mining--California--Nevada County
Gold miners--California--Nevada County
Log cabins--California--Nevada County
Sluices--California--Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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