Daguerreotype of miners
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Object Details
- Description
- Outdoor landscape scenes were less frequently made than the familiar early studio portraits by daguerreian photographers of the 1840-1860s. Cumbersome wooden cameras and equipment for developing the plates proved difficult to transport across rough terrain. Yet, this daguerreotype of miners panning for gold in the Western United States provides in clear detail the landscape and miners with their equipment. The photographer or his assistant has even hand-tinted small gold specs in the pan of the miner at the front of the image.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Waterbury Companies, Inc.
- circa 1849-1860
- ID Number
- PG.75.17.907
- accession number
- 322775
- catalog number
- 75.17.907
- Object Name
- Daguerreotype
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 10.795 cm
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_741853
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5dd4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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