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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library

Creator:
Various

Extent:
78 photographs (in 74 cases)

Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California

Shelf location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Abstract:
78 cased photographs selected from the collections of the California State Library. Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from the late 1840s to the mid-1860s. Subject matter is chiefly portraits of California pioneers and mining scenes, mining districts, and towns of the California gold rush.

Language:
English.

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