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Title: Oak of the golden dream
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The spot in Placerita Canyon (Los Angeles County) where gold was first discovered in Southern California. "Under the tree gold was first found on the roots of wild onions." The ranch is owned by a Mrs. Lehigh and Frank Kiernan is caretaker. April 13, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067769
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 632 4x5
CARL0000072768
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2293
Subject: Gold--California--Los Angeles County--History
Oaks--California--Los Angeles County
Trees--California--Los Angeles County
Ranches--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Placerita Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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