Visual Materials
Mining scene of a large group of miners posed while working on a rocky riverbed [California?]
- Description
View of about 30 men, including some Native Americans, with tools, working along a rocky riverbank. A diversion flume structure visible behind miners. Handwritten note accompanying photograph reads: "Gold mine of Walter Taylor, Taylorsville, Calif. 1849. Uncle Walter died here in 1850," though this information has been disputed, since Taylorsville in Plumas County was not active at this time. Possibly this is another location named Taylorsville or misinformation. See collection file for correspondence disputing location.
- Date
- [approximately 1849]
- Call number
- (photDAG 55)
- Provenance
- Acquired from various sources. Assembled into a collection by the Library from various sources. See finding aid for sources of individual items.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Items are fragile. Available with curatorial approval. Please view digital surrogates.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The copyright for daguerreotypes by Robert Shlaer (photDAG 116, photDAG 154) is held by Shlaer. For the rest of the collection, the responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
- Associated people
- Oliver, Barret, (1818-1879,)
- Pratt, William A., (1808-1888,)
- Root, M. A. (1811-1894,)
- Shlaer, Robert, (1825-1876,)
- Southworth, Albert Sands, (1820-1893,)
- Vance, Robert H.,
- Whitney, Edward Tompkins,
- Associated organizations
- Meade Bros.,
- Southworth & Hawes,
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