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"Old timers" trekk into California mountains as vanguard of big gold revival. Below an old "rocker" or "cradle" used for separating gold from gravel

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Title: "Old timers" trekk into California mountains as vanguard of big gold revival. Below an old "rocker" or "cradle" used for separating gold from gravel
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2018-3154.
Removed from: Days of '49 Collection, 1923.
Shows miner with pick, shovel, rifle, dressed in pants made of Stanislaus Mills flour sack. Sign reads "Calaveras County Pioneer, As old Bach of the Natural, Bridge left Sacramento for, Mines Sept. 1st 1850 cost, Outfit $65"
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001637976CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Days of '49 Celebration, (1922 :. Sacramento, Calif.)--Photographs
Celebrations--California--Sacramento
Historical pageants--California--Sacramento
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Gold miners--California--Sacramento
Gold mining equipment--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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