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Title: Memento from John D. Rockefeller
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated July 8, 1950 reads "John Kasper, prospector who settled in Bouquet Canyon in 1912, with hand-forged vise given him by the billionaire. Rockefeller also gave Kasper $20 gold piece...no dime...after Kasper gave Rockefeller lift in icewagon." The article partially reads "Far up in Bouquet Canyon, above Saugus, there lives a fabulous man named John Kasper. He ran a placer mine in Texas Canyon, about three miles back of his present modest home, and took out $1000 a month in gold."; See images #00136157 through #00136158 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00136157
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d043_f7_i12
CARL0005619806
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/65816
Subject: Men--California--Santa Clarita
Gold miners--California--Santa Clarita
Vises--California--Santa Clarita
Bouquet Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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