Book

Golden Prospects

Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

Jane Lee Aspinwall

2019

Yale University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

The Bullion Mine, Virginia City, Nevada, in a village at the foot of a mountain.

Gold Diggers on Camera

Creating the myth of the gold rush with the help of daguerreotypists.

by Jane Lee Aspinwall via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 28, 2019

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