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Title: Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

Author : Jane L. Aspinwall

Pages : pages

Publisher : The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0300246218

ISBN-13 : 9780300246216

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Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush BY Jane L. Aspinwall

Read Online and Download Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush. A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype cameraThe California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as seen through daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered at Sutter?s Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento. Including .

Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush by Jane L. Aspinwall

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