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Guide to the Cased Photographs and Related Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collections, Bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870
URL: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf7p3006fv&query=cased&query-join=and&brand=oac

Description:
"Approximately 440 cased photographs and related images from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes dating from the 1840s through 1860s. Also present are some painted miniature portraits as well as other photographic processes such as opalotypes, pannotypes, and crystoleum prints." Features portraits, mining scenes, California gold rush towns, and views of San Francisco and Sacramento. Also contains a glossary of photographic terms, and bibliography. From the California Digital Library.

Publisher:
The Regents of The University of California

Dublin Core Material Type:
Collection, Dataset, Image

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
California -- History
Photographs -- Conservation and restoration
Photography -- California

LII Database Information:
Record 6042 created by Tom McGibney on 12/01/2002
Last modification on 09/05/2006
Published: 12/01/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6042