Title:
[View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River, with Harvey Myron Sampson and Jeremiah Sampson.]
Abstract:
Image 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.
Date:
[ca. 1854]
Subject:
Miners
Gold mines and mining
Carts & wagons
Tools
Sluices
Note:
Tarnish lines from three cracks in original cover glass are visible on the bottom half of the plate.
Type:
Daguerreotypes
Landscapes
Physical Description:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.4 cm.
displayLabel="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.;;;displayLabel="Container or Case
Note">Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm.;;
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1969.040--CASE
Filename:
brk00040285_8a.tif
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