Thirty Years Ago 1849-1879
Gold Rush Memories of a Daguerreotype Artist

by George Dornin

A forty-niner and photographer spins his true life Gold Rush story. Edited by renowned photo historian Peter Palmquist.

Illustrated by Dornin's daguerreotypes of Nevada City and North San Juan, California; portraits of Dornin; samples of advertisements; and a lithograph of Dornin's studio.


“Few accounts of gold-rush California are as interesting as George Dornin's Thirty Years Ago
~ Peter Palmquist, Editor and photo-historian.

64 pages, 6 x 9 inches
ISBN # 1-887694-01-3   paper

Price: 14.95

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