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Title: Tujunga prospector and mules
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: Circa 1929
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: Order L-28 by the War Production Board (WPB) forced all gold mines to cease operations on October of 1942. The WPB was later dissolved after the defeat of Japan in 1945, and replaced by the Civilian Production Administration in late 1945.
Pictured is one of the last prospectors in the Tujunga area with his mules. The mule 2nd from right is called Beezlebub (Prince of devils). No further information has been provided. Photograph date stamped February 7, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00032403
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d041_f33_i11
CARL0000034469
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41517
Subject: Prospecting
Mules
Men
Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif)
Time Period: 1920-1929

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