[P. J. Espenscheid store, Nevada City, California]

Daguerreotype shows: P. J. Espenscheid's shoe store with an array of men in jackets with white shirts and ties, probably local merchants, standing in front of the store, a pile of litter beside the store, legible broadsides on the side wall, and scattered papers and sticks on the ground. Signs on the building include "Fountain Head Shoe Store," "P. J. Epenscheid Boots & Shoes," and "P. J. Epenscheid Boots, Shoes & Rubbers." An image on one of the store's signs shows a person being fired from a cannon which is actually a boot turned sideways. Another sign shows a rebus reading "Boots, Shoes, Harness & [saddle] Repairing." Espenscheid's store provided provisions for men seeking gold during the California gold rush of the 1850s.
Photographer unidentified.
Case: oval and floral scroll motif.

Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Purchase; William L. Schaeffer Photographs; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:116).