Gold miner Joey Brandt working with conveyer bucket, hopper, and sluice box over stream, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932

Title: Gold miner Joey Brandt working with conveyer bucket, hopper, and sluice box over stream, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932
Date Created: 1932
Date: 1932
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Joey Brandt, in hat, shirtless, back to camera, standing in hopper over stream emptying conveyer bucket, with sluice box under hopper, stream flowing into foreground, another hopper, car, trees, and mountains in background
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. A home-made conveyer bucket, once a garbage can, arrives at the river bank with something for Joey Brandt to send through the sluice box.
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Calif. - San Gabriel Canyon - Gold Mining

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Brandt, Joey
Location: San Gabriel Canyon (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold mining equipment--California--San Gabriel Canyon

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0754
0754
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002db342
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