Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File. Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
DAG-0157 DAGUERREOTYPE-V: CHAPMAN, WM. O.(?) & UNIDENTIFIED MINERS Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured with rounded corners. Case: leather (hinge broken, leather deteriorating); 6 x 4 3/4 in. Motif: geometric. Pad: faded red silk. View of 23 gold miners posed with shovels next to sluices on rocky hillside. William Chapman believed to be one of the miners in the badkground at the right. Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File. 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". Have negative number 28,863 (4x5 in. b&w) and 28,864 (4x5 in., color). Have color transparency (2 copies) (4x5 in.), number 28,865. Negatives, No. 24,094a-g (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Portraits. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype, half plate ; visible image 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
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