Content/DescriptionImage includes three men and a horse and cart. Men work at the base a high embankment, and the two-wheeled cart has been backed up to the edge of the bank above them. A sluice box and a cradle or rocker are visible in the foreground.
Details
Title
[View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River, with Harvey Myron Sampson and Jeremiah Sampson.]
Published
ca. 1854
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.4 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Tarnish lines from three cracks in original cover glass are visible on the bottom half of the plate. <physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: gold in pan hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Cover glass: replaced glass. Preserver: textured.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: [View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River...] (Detail.)
Image 2: BANC PIC 1969.040––DIG
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