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A Grub Stake Prospector on the Mojave Desert, not far from Death Valley, California, 1889

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Title: A Grub Stake Prospector on the Mojave Desert, not far from Death Valley, California, 1889
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1889
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: A man walking in the desert alongside a burro loaded with camp supplies.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "A Grub Stake Prospector on the Mojave Desert, not far from Death Valley, California. Photo made in 1889."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 34 x 47.5 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414570
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7199
Subject: Gold miners--West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life--California
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Mojave Desert.
California.
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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