CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH MINER 49ER 1/6 DAGUERREOTYPE RARE 1850s PHOTO 1800s Rare hairwork The largest image is a

The largest image is a 1/4 ambrotype

A few light bends

The imprint is upside down

whose studio imprint is visible along the bottom edge of the image

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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH MINER 49ER 1/6 DAGUERREOTYPE RARE 1850s PHOTO 1800s Rare hairwork The largest image is aSixth plate daguerreotype of a miner, in full case. Although not identified on this image, I believe he was Thomas Warren Young (born 1829), based on other images picked up in the same lot as this dag (read below). This daguerreotype came with several identified images of a woman and little girl, plus two of the same little boy. The woman and girl were identified as Rebecca Thompson Young and Emma Young, born 1860, which fits as being Thomas Warren