Content/DescriptionView of small mining town showing several buildings at right with townspeople, horses and dogs standing nearby. Small bridge (Freeman's Crossing) over river at left with worked out mining area along river bank. Freeman's Crossing was located about a half mile below where Oregon Creek flows into the Yuba and about a mile and a half northwest of North San Juan (Calif.). The first bridge was built by Thomas Hess in 1851, rebuilt in 1852, and sold to Thomas Freeman in 1854.
Title
[Freeman's Crossing, Middle Fork, Yuba River.]
Published
1856
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1905.16242:076--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 10 x 13.1 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: plain rectangular (double elliptical).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.4 x 12.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif. Notes: spine label - 729 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Note in early hand (formerly attached to cover glass): Freeman's Crossing, Middle Yuba 1856. Accompanying typed note from [California] State Librarian giving location and brief history of Freeman's Crossing.</physfacet>;;;
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