The oldest photograph of San Francisco
1850
Daguerreotype
San Francisco Public Library
Photo Id: AAC-8879
LL/74199 [Further details available]
1 of 60
The oldest photograph of San Francisco
1850
Daguerreotype
San Francisco Public Library
Photo Id: AAC-8879, Copy Negative: 8519
LL/74064 [Further details available]
2 of 60
Six gold miners in front of log cabin, California
1854-1856 (ca)
Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.506, Object number: 54.2019.8
LL/94437
3 of 60
California gold miners with cabin
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.280
LL/94424
4 of 60
California gold miner in front of Justices Office tent
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.374
LL/94425
5 of 60
George Johnson's Daguerreian Gallery, Sacramento, California
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.119
LL/94413 [Further details available]
6 of 60
George Johnson's Daguerreian Rooms, San Francisco, California
1854-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, whole plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2016.75.354
LL/94414
7 of 60
Straw-hatted gold miner
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/11398 [Further details available]
8 of 60
Straw-hatted miner with pick, pan and shovel
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/11397 [Further details available]
9 of 60
Two miners
1850-1855
Ambrotype, 1/4 plate
California State Library
Record no: 001387671
LL/38272
10 of 60
Group of miners
1850s (ca)
Daguerreotype
California Historical Society
LL/79006
11 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with daguerreotype and letter
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.278
LL/94417
12 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with daguerreotype and letter
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.278
LL/112917
13 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with tools
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.115
LL/94418
14 of 60
Miner - Moses Warren
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
AMC - Archive of Modern Conflict
Promised gift to the National Gallery of Canada
LL/63336 [Further details available]
15 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner
1852
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2014.45.40
LL/94419
16 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with pick and shovel
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2016.6.13
LL/94420
17 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with pick and shovel
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.279
LL/94421
18 of 60
Portrait of Lyman Alvinson Rundell in mining-themed shirt
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.285
LL/94423
19 of 60
Portrait of a California miner with gold ore
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.377
LL/94428
20 of 60
Portrait of Seth Boyden, California gold miner
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.378
LL/94429
21 of 60
Two Gold Miners, One Pointing
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.587
LL/94426
22 of 60
Portrait of Orlando Ballou, California gold miner
1854 (ca)
Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2008.13.24
LL/94436
23 of 60
Portrait of a California gold miner with tousled hair
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.500, Object number: 54.2019.13
LL/94422
24 of 60
Miners' Tent Store
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/70446 [Further details available]
25 of 60
[Mormon Island: gold rush town view among hills.]
1854 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Call number: BANC PIC 19xx.074--CASE
LL/70447 [Further details available]
26 of 60
Spanish Flat
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
California State Library
Record no: 001379047
LL/38271
27 of 60
Placer mining near Hangtown, California
1851 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
9.5 x 12.9 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977.0243.0013
LL/74415
28 of 60
[Portrait of 23 miners at sluice]
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
California State Library
Record no: 001379301
LL/38270
29 of 60
Gold miners with sluice
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
3 1/4 × 4 1/4 ins
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., 2005.27.116.
LL/92773
30 of 60
Outdoor scene with miners
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
AMC - Archive of Modern Conflict
Promised gift to the National Gallery of Canada
LL/63342
31 of 60
African American Miner Working a Long Tom
1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
California State Library
Record no: 001379055
LL/38267 [Further details available]
32 of 60
Portrait of a Boy with Gold-Mining Toys
1854, March-September
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object number: 84.XT.269.22
LL/50627
33 of 60
Notion Company's Works, California
1852 (or earlier)
Daguerreotype
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/47381 [Further details available]
34 of 60
Diamond Springs, El Dorado County
1854
Daguerreotype
California Historical Society
LL/79007
35 of 60
California Gold Rush Town with a Daguerrean Room
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Private collection of Greg French
LL/92520 [Further details available]
36 of 60
Miners cabin, California goldfields
1850
Daguerreotype
California State Library
LL/90481
37 of 60
Nevada City
1852
Daguerreotype
California State Library
Courtesy of the California History Room
LL/90482
38 of 60
Albumen print copy of an 1850s California Gold Rush daguerreotype
1860s-1870s (print)
Albumen print
Private collection of Casey Allen Waters
Current location uncertain
LL/92588
39 of 60
Albumen print copy of a now lost daguerreotype of "James Marshall in front of Sutter's Mill"
n.d.
Digital scan from a negative
Private collection of Graham Pilecki
LL/92704 [Further details available]
40 of 60
River mining, North Fork, American River, California
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.112
LL/94415
41 of 60
Gold mining operation
1857 (ca)
Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2015, Object number: 57.2019.10
LL/94416 [Further details available]
42 of 60
California gold miners with ore-crushing mechanism
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.491, Object number: 54.2019.12
LL/94427
43 of 60
California gold miners with long tom
1850-1852 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2014.45.31
LL/94430
44 of 60
Untitled
1853
Daguerreotype
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.488
LL/114498
45 of 60
California gold miners with sluice
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2011.37.34
LL/94431
46 of 60
California gold miners with rocker and sluice
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2019.22.20
LL/94432
47 of 60
A (top): California gold miners in camp / B (bottom): River diversion mining, California
1850-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotypes (x2), 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.114.A,B
LL/94433
48 of 60
Nine California gold miners with long tom
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.24.31
LL/94434
49 of 60
Dresser & Co., California gold miners
1852, 7 June
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2017.68.277
LL/94435
50 of 60
California gold miners with rocker and sluice
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.488, Object number: 54.2019.9
LL/94438
51 of 60
California gold miners with sluices
1854-1858 (ca)
Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.499, Object number: 54.2019.10
LL/94439
52 of 60
[River bed mining scene with seven miners under a sluice network.]
1855-1858
Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1983.157--CASE
LL/101888 [Further details available]
53 of 60
[Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - bare plate image, removed from case.)
1850-1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 2002.095--DIG
LL/101889 [Further details available]
54 of 60
[Riverbed mining scene with fifteen miners, including Elmer Bliss.]
1852-1858 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1905.16242:084--CASE
LL/101890 [Further details available]
55 of 60
[Mining scene in rocky diggings near Lincoln, California, with 39 miners.]
1849-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1905.16242:075--CASE
LL/101891 [Further details available]
56 of 60
[Mining scene in rocky diggings near Lincoln, California, with 39 miners.]
1849-1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1905.16242:075--CASE
LL/101892 [Further details available]
57 of 60
Three Large Gold Nuggets
1865-1870
Albumen print
15 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.
Crocker Art Museum
Gift of Barbara Morgans Powers, 1973.37.3.
LL/112918
58 of 60
[A miner playing the flute alongside his makeshift cabin in the California gold fields]
1849 (ca)
Daguerreotype
The Society of California Pioneers
Further details and accession number requested (3 May 2022).
LL/119782 [Further details available]
59 of 60
An Evening Scene - Boston Flat, Calaveras County.
1857, November
Wood engraving
Google Books
LL/119789 [Further details available]
60 of 60
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