California Gold Rush Miners circa 1849 Dageuerreotype

by Peter Ogden

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California Gold Rush Miners circa 1849 Dageuerreotype

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Peter Ogden

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This is a copy of a circa 1849 daguerreotype photograph of California gold rush miners by Robert H. Vance.
Robert H. Vance was the premier daguerreotypist of California and the mining communities near San Francisco, where gold was first discovered in 1848. In 1851 he exhibited in New York City more than three hundred views of the nation's newest state.
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850. The gold rush was the beginning of civilization and law and order in the previously lawless and primitive California territory.

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May 2nd, 2020

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