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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Placerita Canyon is the historic place where Francisco Lopez was the first to discover gold in California in 1842. Photograph caption dated March 4, 1949 reads, "This metal marker today rests upon the spot where Lopez found the Placerita nugget clinging to a wild onion root. David Fraser explains the marker to Alice and Helen Flint."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Women--California--Los Angeles County Girls--California--Los Angeles County Boys--California--Los Angeles County Monuments--California--Los Angeles County Plaques, plaquettes--California--Los Angeles County Boulders--California--Los Angeles County Trees--California--Los Angeles County Gold--California--Los Angeles County--History Canyons--California--Los Angeles County Los Angeles County (Calif.) Placerita Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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