Unidentified photographer
1855-1860 (ca)
[Mining scene with a flume and miners, including a California Indian(?) in foreground.]

Pannotype, collodion positive on oil cloth
25 x 29 cm (image) 29 x 35 cm (cloth)
 
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 1989.014--CASE
 
This image was once described as depicting a Hawaiian miner in the foreground, but there is no evidence to support (or suggest) this. The description was presumed to be a modern and inaccurate one and has been revised.
 
LL/75038