Unidentified photographer
1890 (?, ca)
Life at the mines, Park's Bar on the Yuba River, Yuba County, California in 1852

Cyanotype
16.5 x 19.2 cm
 
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0z09p03x, BANC PIC 1963.002:0305:01 (enclosure)--A
 
Eight men sluice mining by small stream; several wooden houses on hill beyond.
Supplied title. Handwritten (on verso): Please make us a [salting?] good silver print of this, then I can destroy negatives both sizes, [amls?](signature?), for life in the mines. Handwritten note on separate label: Copy of the positive 1963.002.0305--B made from an 1852 daguerreotype, used for 1963.002.0305--A,
drawing by Daggett.
 
LL/90718