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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Man bending over inspecting something a panner found is possibly William Parker Lyon, former mayor of Fresno. This photograph was used as a reference for an illustration appearing in "'Land of Forty-Nine' Coming to Life Again," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec 1933: F1. Several unidentified men in the yard of the Carson City Mint are panning or prospecting for gold. An older man wearing glasses, standing with two more men, bends over to inspect something one of the prospectors found. The mint closed in June 1933, and allowed people to buy panning rights to prospect the yard before becoming Carson City's new Federal Building. Text under illustration in article: Mining in mint yard, Carson City. Text next to illustration in article: Remember those silver dollars with "C C" under the eagle? A prospector, with government approval, now is mining the Carson City mint yard, where they were made, to get what was left over when Uncle Sam closed his biggest dollar store. The accompanying drawing by Charles H. Owens shows this most novel phase of the mining revival in the West. Typed on negative: Panning mint yard, Carson City, Handwritten on negative sleeve: Nevada??? Gov. Carson City? i.d. (see typed headings on negatives)
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6659 ark:/21198/zz002cwx7z
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Prospecting--Nevada--Carson City Gold panning--Nevada--Carson City Mints--Nevada--Carson City Mayors--California--Fresno Lyon, W. Parker United States Mint
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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