Silver & gold
Subtitle: cased images of the California gold rush
By: edited by Drew Heath Johnson & Marcia Eymann.
Contributors: Johnson, Drew Heath.; Eymann, Marcia.; Oakland Museum of California.; National Museum of American Art (U.S.); E.B. Crocker Art Gallery.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press for the Oakland Museum of California
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Iowa City, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Daguerreotype -- California -- Exhibitions; California -- Gold discoveries -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions; California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Silver and gold
Description: Silver and Gold includes works by Robert Vance, P. M. Batchelder, William Shew, Frederick Coombs, and W. H. Rulofson - images of native Californians and those who shared the land with them, memorable images of the men and women who sought their fortunes in the gold fields. Photographs from the mining communities reflect the miners' rough houses, sunburned faces, and makeshift clothes, capturing the isolation and determination of people working under difficult conditions far from home.

Essays by John Wood, poet and founding president of the Daguerreian Society; Peter Palmquist, independent scholar and curator in the field of photography; and Drew Johnson and Marcia Eymann, co-curators of the Oakland Museum exhibition that complements this volume, enhance these striking early images. In addition, annotations on the back of the photographs and written accounts of the experiences they record provide glimpses into the intentions of the photographers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented by the Oakland Museum of California, Jan. 24 to July 26, 1998; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 30, 1998 to Mar. 7, 1999; and the Crocker Art Gallery, Aug. 13 to Oct. 10, 1999.