Image / African American and white gold miners at "Spanish Flat," Placerville (vicinity), 1852

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Title: African American and white gold miners at "Spanish Flat," Placerville (vicinity), 1852
Alternative Title: Gold Rush
Contributor: Early California, 1781-1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: An African American miner and a white miner use a "long Tom" to sluice gravels at Spanish Flat, a mining camp in El Dorado County just a few miles north of Placerville. An African American and a white miner are on the road behind them with a horse and cart.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f09_002a.tif
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Subject: Gold miners
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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