Exhibit of Gold Nugget, National Museum of Natural History
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: pre 1958
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder: 18
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.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder: 18
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
pre 1958
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California
33476 or MNH-33476
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print