Posted by Kristin on June 10, 1999 at 22:50:18:
The May issue of National Geographic featured a brief, 5-page article about the Oakland Museum of Art's gold rush daguerreotype exhibition, which will be visiting the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento from August 13 through October 10.
I looked up the Oakland Museum and found this site:
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/silver-native.html
which presents several images from the collection, along with historical information. The site also contains information regarding other shows traveling throughout California.
The daguerreotype show, I think, is especially intriguing, as the daguerreotypes were used to document this short-lived historical era, and then they too were replaced by new methods of photography. So, in a way, the images themselves are like 2-dimensional ghost towns.
Anyway, thought someone might be interested in visiting either the real-life show, or the virtual one.