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California gold miners drift mining
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California gold miners drift mining

Artist Unknown
Dateca. 1853
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 4 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (10.8 × 13.97 cm)
Case (open): 9 7/8 × 6 × 3/8 inches (25.07 × 15.24 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 4 7/8 × 6 × 3/4 inches (12.37 × 15.24 × 1.91 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.28.21
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn modern paper seal, in pencil: "Hallmark H.B. eagle 40 / originally had no paper seal / Retaped 7.25.17 CAW Exeter, NH"
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DescriptionImage of men working along sluice box in a rocky valley. The wooden trough emerges horizontally from an excavated tunnel on the side of the hill. The men all wear long pants, shirts and hats while holding various implements: pickaxes, shovels, etc. A man in the foreground displays a pan partially filled with gold. This half plate daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a decorative paper-covered wooden case with a red velvet liner.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
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