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Unknown maker — Untitled (Gold Mining Scene with Six Miners)

Unknown maker

Untitled (Gold Mining Scene with Six Miners)

1854

Rendered in the ambrotype's characteristic glass-plate technique, this group scene provides rare visual documentation of collective mining operations in the 1850s.

Medium
Ambrotype

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Unknown maker, Untitled (Gold Mining Scene with Six Miners), 1854

Rendered in the ambrotype's characteristic glass-plate technique, this group scene provides rare visual documentation of collective mining operations in the 1850s.

Medium
Ambrotype
Year
1854
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Sepia Tone, Ambrotype, Documentary, American, Mining Scene, Labor, Historical, Portrait, Figurative

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