Content/DescriptionMen stopping work to pose at mining site. Two display gold pans, one carries buckets balanced from a bar across his shoulders. Several rockers or "cradles" are also displayed.
Title
[Six miners with rocker, wheel barrows, picks, shovels and gold pans.]
Published
ca. 1850
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 6.5 x 9 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: gold nugget hand colored. Mat: textured octagonal.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm. Pad: purple velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Eickmeyer style case, but with no patent statement.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Accompanying note (handwritten by collector Zelda Mackay): #627 Miners at Diggings, California, 1850. Notice real gold nugget in gold pan.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: [Six miners with rocker, wheel barrows, ...] (Detail.)
Image 2: BANC PIC 1905.16242:061––DIG
brk00041571_8a: [Six miners with rocker, wheel barrows, ...] (Bare plate, from a transparency.)
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