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Untitled [Placer mining scene]
Carleton Watkinsabout 1850s
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Watkins was persistently interested in the technical details of mining operations. Here a primitive Spanish ore mill is used to pulverize gold-bearing rock. Throughout his career Watkins earned income producing photographs that were used as sources for engraved illustrations, as this one was.
Details
- Title: Untitled [Placer mining scene]
- Creator: Unknown, Carleton Watkins
- Date Created: about 1850s
- Location Created: Placer, California, United States
- Physical Dimensions: Plate: 10.8 × 13.8 cm (4 1/4 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Type: Cased object
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Daguerreotype
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2008.10.2
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Unknown Attributed to Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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