[MINING - EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate daguerreotype of a gold miner wearing a shirt adorned with anchors, moons, and stars.

Seated portrait of a bearded miner posed before a curtain or cloth backdrop with visible ripples. He wears a shirt made of fabric embellished with anchors, moons, and stars, along with a gold nugget pin and California style buckle. (Tarnishing along edge, few spots; re-glazed and resealed 2000.) Housed in a fully separated hand-painted case with mother-of-pearl inlay (front cover fully separated from case, surface wear throughout). Penciled inscription in case behind image is largely indecipherable.

A daguerreotype featuring two miners, one wearing an almost identical shirt to the one worn by the subject here, is housed at the Oakland Museum of California.

Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon

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[MINING - EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate daguerreotype of a gold miner wearing a shirt adorned with anchors, moons, and stars.

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