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Golden prospects : daguerreotypes of the California gold rush
- Title
- Golden prospects : daguerreotypes of the California gold rush / Jane L. Aspinwall with contributions by Keith F. Davis ; director's foreword by Julián Zugazagoitia.
- Author
- Aspinwall, Jane Lee, 1967-
- Publication
- Kansas City, Missouri : Hall Family Foundation in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2019]
- New Haven : Yale University Press.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 166 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera. The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as seen through daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento. Including numerous images published here for the first time, this book provides an extraordinary glimpse into the transformation of the American West.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works
- Exhibition catalogs
- Illustrated works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, September 6, 2019-January 26, 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Early daguerreian projects in California : Vance and Jones -- The urban gold rush : The daguerreotype in San Francisco and Sacramento / Keith F. Davis -- daguerreotypists in the gold regions -- "Where but a few weeks since a wilderness was only visible" : Life and work in the gold towns -- "Finding the color" : The evolution of mining technologies -- Diversity in the gold fields.
- ISBN
- 9780300246216
- 0300246218
- OCLC
- on1090424968
- 1090424968
- SCSB-9517293
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library