US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Thousands View Wonders of Mojave Area at Desert Gold Festival; Riches Seen in Mine Trip; Ore Handled by Huge Plants." Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1935: 8. Photograph of John H. Wattson, general superintendent of the Golden Queen Mine, standing at the entrance to a mine shaft during the first Gold Festival in Mojave where the public was invited to tour the mine. Text from negative sleeve: Wattson, John H. Mining, 1935 T[?]W Text from the newspaper caption: John H. Wattson Handwritten on negative: John H. Wattson 5/19/35
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4288 ark:/21198/zz002cq27n
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Festivals--California--Mojave Gold mining--California--Mojave Wattson, John H., 1880-1958
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