Daguerreotype of miners
date: label: Date made
content: circa 1849-1860
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Waterbury Companies, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.75.17.907
label: accession number
content: 322775
label: catalog number
content: 75.17.907
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Daguerreotype
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 10.795 cm