[Mining scene in rocky diggings near Lincoln, California, with 39 miners.]

ca. 1849-1855

Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870

BANC PIC 1905.16242:075--CASE

Image

1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 10.2 x 13.5 cm.

The Bancroft Library

Attributed to William Shew by collector Zelda Mackay. No evidence is present, and her assigned date of 1849 (itself suspect) is prior to Shew's 1851 arrival in California.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of The Delicate Roses (Rinhart no. 125). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.9 x 15 cm. Pad: pink silk. Notes: spine label: 495 (from prior owner). Case appears to be earlier and may not be original to image.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">"Accompanying note (handwritten, by collector Zelda Mackay): Rare daguerreotype of 1849 showing California Placer gold mine near "Hangtown," now known as Placerville. The tall man on the right with the white suspenders is Wm. Pickett, kin of Gen. George E. Pickett, famous Confederate General of Civil War. Wm. Pickett came to Calif. In '49 and settled near Lincoln. By Wm. Shew."</physfacet>;;;

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