Subject: Gold mining--California--San Gabriel Canyon - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 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
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mountains and cliffs, with pipes running down cliffs at right, cars and campsite visible at lower right
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: After many years working as a miner and appearing in several Hollywood pictures over the years John Swanson has decided to return to his home in Alaska.
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charles T. Brown, in work shirt and hat, seated near hopper, displaying pan of gold dust
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of mining camp and surrounding mountainous area, with about 16 tents and small buildings, about 8 cars, stream in foreground
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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