Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Gold Miners at dig

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
10.8 x 14.0 cm., 1/2 plate
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 34164
79:3157:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8630

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 73.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush", US, CA, Oakland, Oakland Museum, January 24 - August 15, 1998.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

FRAME: in decorative brown leather case

NOTES: Catalogued 9/88, SB.

SUBJECTS:
occupation, mining - miners
occupation, at work