California gold miners with long toms
Artist
Unknown
Dateca. 1851
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (quarter): 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.8 × 8.26 cm)
Case (open): 4 5/8 × 7 3/8 × 3/8 inches (11.76 × 18.75 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 4 5/8 × 3 5/8 × 1/2 inches (11.76 × 9.22 × 1.27 cm)
Case (open): 4 5/8 × 7 3/8 × 3/8 inches (11.76 × 18.75 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 4 5/8 × 3 5/8 × 1/2 inches (11.76 × 9.22 × 1.27 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.28.19
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of gold miners near their wooden sluice in a rocky landscape lined with trees. The men wear long pants, shirts and hats. One man sits on a pile of rocks with a pan in his lap. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a paper or leather covered wooden case with a flower motif, pink silk liner, and white paper mat.ProvenanceThe Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
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