Gold miners Frank Robison, Charles T. Brown, and M.L. Sims selling gold, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932
Item Overview
- Title
- Gold miners Frank Robison, Charles T. Brown, and M.L. Sims selling gold, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932
- Date Created
- 1932
- Date
- 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A similar photograph appears with the article “Gold Gleaners Ply Trade in San Gabriel Canyon, Cream Skimmed in Early Days, but Ancient Diggings Still Yield Pittance to Patient Toil.” Los Angeles Times, 25 Sept. 1932: A1, with caption: Pan and Rocker Again in Use on Southland Streams. Gold Rush Days Recalled in San Gabriel Canyon. An itinerant gold buyer pays $16 an ounce for dust and tiny nuggets: Left to right, buyer, Frank Robison, Fire Warden Marshall, Charles T. Brown and M.L. Sims.
Charles T. Brown, in work shirt and hat, seated on bench weighing gold on scales on wooden box, with buyer in shirt and trousers at left bending forward, holding money. Standing behind looking on: Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, foot on bench; Fire Warden Albert E. Marshall, in shirt with badges on pocket and hat; M.L. Sims, in torn shirt and pants, tool on belt, holding jars; in canyon area with mountains and trees in background. Box reads: Pentecostal Mission Comasary 4
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Robison, Frank
Marshall, Albert E., 1888-1960
Sims, M. L.
Brown, Charles T., b. ca. 1903 - Location
- San Gabriel Canyon (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Scales
Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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0747
uclamss_1429_0747 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002db2wz
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .