Title:
John Augustus Blanchard daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits
Creator/Contributor:
Vance, Robert H., 1825-1876
Abstract:
Portraits of California gold miner John Augustus Blanchard. Daguerreotype: bust-length portrait in formal dress. Ambrotype:
full-length standing portrait in miner's attire.
Date:
ca. 1855 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Blanchard, John Augustus -- Portraits
Gold miners -- California -- Photographs
Note:
Photographers unknown. Vendor attributed daguerreotype to Robert H. Vance.
Accompanied by 2 scraps of paper identifying subject: John A. Blanchard; John Augustus Blanchard.
Title devised by cataloger.
RESTRICTED COLLECTION: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
John Augustus Blanchard daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, BANC PIC 2013.075, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Per vendor's description, Blanchard posted letters at the Sacramento post office in 1855; was sentenced to prison in 1860.
Type:
graphic
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
BANC PIC 2013.075:1 1 photograph : daguerreotype, quarter plate ; visible image 10 x 7 cm dia. oval.
BANC PIC 2013.075:2 1 photograph : ambrotype, sixth plate ; visible image 7 x 6 cm dia. oval.
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
RESTRICTED COLLECTION: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.