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Two Mexican men panning for gold in the Picacho region of the Colorado River, 1890

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Title: Two Mexican men panning for gold in the Picacho region of the Colorado River, 1890
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Two men with their equipment panning for gold.
Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Title supplied by cataloger. Monsen's typed label on back says: "The Picacho Region of the Colorado River was, during pioneer days, a great mining country. The picture was made in 1890 and shows gold panning and the dry washer. Mexicans were working the gravels at that time."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 33 x 42 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414480
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7183
Subject: Gold panning
Gold miners--West (U.S.)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Photographs. (aat)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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