Captain Loring N. Shaw posing as a gold miner daguerreotype, approx. 1851
Cased half plate daguerreotype inside brass mat. Gold in pan has been hand colored with gold paint. Case is wood covered with tooled leather.
At the age of 21, Capt. Shaw became master of a California Coastal and Inland Waters vessel where he stayed for 8 years.
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