Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Daccala, Joe
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- United States National Museum
- Hall of Gems and Minerals (Exhibition) (1958: United States National Museum)
- Hall of Gems
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Exhibit in the Gems and Minerals Hall showing a flake of the first gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, February 1848, by James W. Marshall, photo of James W. Marshall, and a copy of the letter of authentication. Also, from the Roebling Collection, the largest gold nugget found in many years near Greenville, Plumas County, California, at Union Placer Mine, owned by two old miners, Joe Dacoala and Bill Roedde.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder: 18
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- pre 1958
- Standard number
- 33476 or MNH-33476
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- California
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Mineralogy
- Exhibitions
- Geology
- Gold
- Sutter's Mill
- Gold mines and mining
- Marshall, James W
- Roebling Collection
- Union Placer Mine
- Roedde, Billy
- Minerals
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9946
