Historical treasures like miner’s pants that could have been made by Levi Strauss, mysterious daguerreotypes and gold jewelry from the U.S.S. Central America – a ship laden with gold that sunk in 1857 – went on display for the first time.
The ‘accidental time capsule’ from the Gold Rush Era sidewheel steamship was recovered by a rogue captain and a salvage company between the 1980s and 2014. Many of the treasures, however, have been hidden away due to years of