Research Catalog

Title

Silver & gold : cased images of the California gold rush / edited by Drew Heath Johnson & Marcia Eymann.

Publication

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press for the Oakland Museum of California, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Drew Heath
• Eymann, Marcia.
• Oakland Museum of California.
• National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
• E.B. Crocker Art Gallery.

Description

xxxi, 226 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

• Silver and Gold includes works by Robert Vance, P.M. Batchelder, William Shew, Frederick Coombs, and W.H. Rulofson - images of native Californians and those who shared the land with them, memorable images of the men and women who sought their fortunes in the gold fields. Photographs from the mining communities reflect the miners' rough houses, sunburned faces, and makeshift clothes, capturing the isolation and determination of people working under difficult conditions far from home.
• Essays by John Wood, poet and founding president of the Daguerreian Society; Peter Palmquist, independent scholar and curator in the field of photography; and Drew Johnson and Marcia Eymann, co-curators of the Oakland Museum exhibition that complements this volume, enhance these striking early images. In addition, annotations on the back of the photographs and written accounts of the experiences they record provide glimpses into the intentions of the photographers.

Alternative Title

Silver and gold

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Daguerreotype > California > Exhibitions
• California > Pictorial works > 19th century > Exhibitions
• California > Pictorial works > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented by the Oakland Museum of California, Jan. 24 to July 26, 1998; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 30, 1998 to Mar. 7, 1999; and the Crocker Art Gallery, Aug. 13 to Oct. 10, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Therese Thau Heyman -- Introduction / Marcia Eymann -- Mementos of Silver and Gold: California and the "True Reflected Likeness" / Drew Heath Johnson -- Theatrical Narrative and the Documents of Dream: California and the Great American Image / John Wood -- The Sad but True Story of a Daguerreian Holy Grail / Peter E. Palmquist -- The Plates.

ISBN

• 0877456194 (alk. paper)
• 0877456208 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97031402^

OCLC

• 37588379
• SCSB-12061260

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library