Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
[Unknown]
Title:
[Life at the mines, Park's Bar on the Yuba River, Yuba County, California in 1852]
Date:
[ca. 1890?]
Materials:
photograph on paper: cyanotype
Dimensions:
16.5 x 19.2 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0305:01 (enclosure)--A
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Gold rushes
- Miners
- Mining
- Settlements
- Photographs
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Eight men sluice mining by small stream; several wooden houses on hill beyond.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (on verso): Please make us a [salting?] good silver print of this, then I can destroy negatives both sizes, [amls?](signature?), for life in the mines. Handwritten note on separate label: Copy of the positive 1963.002.0305--B made from an 1852 daguerreotype, used for 1963.002.0305--A, drawing by Daggett.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0z09p03 x

[Life at the mines, Park's Bar on the Yuba River, Yuba County, California in 1852]