{"id":3574,"date":"2018-01-11T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:56:06","slug":"daguerreotypes-of-the-california-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3575\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3575 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SilverAndGold39-1080x740-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SilverAndGold39-1080x740-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SilverAndGold39-1080x740-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SilverAndGold39-1080x740-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SilverAndGold39-1080x740.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor view of a diverted river at a mining operation on the North Fork American River (c. 1852) by an unknown photographer (collection of the Canadian Photography Institute. NGC, Ottawa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGold! Gold from the American River!\u201d So cried the carpenter James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, as the story goes, when he found flakes of the precious metal at Coloma, California, thus ushering into the region a wave of steely-eyed prospectors. As word of the California Gold Rush spread around the world, photographers, too, arrived, and themselves struck metaphorical gold. They set up studios in wagons and captured the historic frenzy around them, making the Gold Rush the first\u00a0major event in the country to be documented extensively through\u00a0the then-new medium.<\/p>\n<p>More at &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/417336\/daguerreotypes-of-the-california-gold-rush\/\">HyperAllergic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGold! Gold from the American River!\u201d So cried the carpenter James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, as the story goes, when he found flakes of the precious metal at Coloma, California, thus ushering into the region a wave of steely-eyed prospectors. As word of the California Gold Rush spread around the world, photographers, too, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}