Content/DescriptionTwo men are visible next to large water wheels in a man made channel diverting the river. Possibly the mining operation of Jacob Phillips. (See notes for other Grizzly Flats views.)
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Title
[Riverbed mining, Grizzly Flats, El Dorado Co., showing mining apparatus.]
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 6.8 x 9.2 cm.
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The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of The Rose Cameo (Rinhart no. 129). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 4 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed urn motif. Notes: spine label - 736 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Accompanying note (handwritten, modern, by Zelda Mackay): Another view of mining operations near Grizzly Flat taken 1849. Same location and diggings as shown in daguerreotypes 660, 734, + 735. [These items now numbered 1905.16242:85, :82, and :77.] Daguerreotype made by early photographer Geo. H. Johnson 83 J Street. Sacramento, 1849. [Cataloger's note: 83 J Street would indicate at date of 1851-1852.] [It is possible that the preceding note was meant to accompany 1905.16242:081 rather than this image.]</physfacet>;;;
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