Unidentified photographer
1850-1853 (ca)
[Gold miners at work with a mining town in background.] (Detail - bare plate image, removed from case.)

Daguerreotype
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
BANC PIC 2002.095--DIG
 
Four miners with picks and shovels work a bank of earth. A small flume comes to their claim from the right of the image, and the cabins of a mining town are visible in the background. The view has a vertical (or portrait) orientation.
 
LL/101889