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Title: Calico mine ruins
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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: Ruins of the Calico mine, the Old Silver King. At its height Calico had 500 silver mines and a population of 1,200 people. During the mid 1890s the price of silver dropped and silver mining no longer remained economically viable.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071237
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9585 8x10
CARL0000074683
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3049
Subject: Ghost towns--California--Calico
Silver mines and mining--California--Calico
Mineral industries--California--Calico
Calico (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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