Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and hat with headlamp, and Charles T. Brown, in workshirt and hat smoking cigarette, both seated on bench behind box with scales with gold nuggets on tray, with gold pan partially visible at left and tents, trees, and mountains in background
M.L. Sims, in hat, torn shirt and pants, and glasses, standing with wheelbarrow, shovel, and one other tool, on rocky hillside with mountains in background
Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, seated on rocks over stream holding gold pan; Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and pants, squatting on rocks behind him; hopper built over stream in background, sluice box weighted by rocks at right, stream flowing into foreground, trees and mountains in background
Lawrence Treece and Newell Leiser, in overalls, seated on cot, and Irene Treece, in checked dress, standing at wood-burning stove, inside cabin, with window above stove, pot, teakettle, and bowl on stove, egg carton and soap box under stove, buckets in foreground
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.
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
Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, seated on rocks over stream holding gold pan; Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and pants, squatting on rocks behind him; hopper built over stream in background, sluice box weighted by rocks at right, stream flowing into foreground, two other men at left, trees and mountains in background
This photograph, cropped, 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.
