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Content/DescriptionFour miners with picks and shovels work a bank of earth. A small flume comes to their claim from the right of the image, and the cabins of a mining town are visible in the background. The view has a vertical (or portrait) orientation.

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Title
[Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Full view of open case and image.)
Published
ca. 1850-1853.
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 2002.095--CASE
Subject (Topic)
Men
Pioneers -- California
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)
Mining districts
Cabins
Tools
Sluices
Type
Image
Format
Daguerreotypes
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 12 x 9 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: oval, decorative gold foil with floral scroll motif. Preserver: decorative, unusually thick.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">"Type: case. Motif: book-style, floral, with word "MIZPAH" (Hebrew for good fortune) printed on spine. Material: lacquered papier-mache with mother of pearl inlay. Dimensions: 15.9 x 12.9 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed urn and flower motif."</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: Daguerreotypes

Image 2: [Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - bare plate image, removed from case.)

Image 2: BANC PIC 2002.095––DIG

Image 3: [Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - case exterior: front.)

Image 3: BANC PIC 2002.095––DIG

Image 4: [Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - case exterior: spine.)

Image 4: BANC PIC 2002.095––DIG

Image 5: [Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - image side only.)

Image 5: BANC PIC 2002.095––DIG
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