1852 Spanish Flat 100
Posted By historian on July 14, 2009
1852 Spanish Flat, in Auburn
View of 4 men with two miners at work on a long tom or sluice box ( one or two men is an African American, one man inside the wagon and one man is at the rear of the wagon. Water in long tom appears to come from hose at top.
Joseph Blaney Starkweather author/photographer, 1852 one of 4 taken in Auburn. Daguerreotype, original, California State Library, California Room
Source: Historian Collection, City of Auburn.
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