Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A similar photograph appears with the article “Gold Gleaners Ply Trade in San Gabriel Canyon, Cream Skimmed in Early Days, but Ancient Diggings Still Yield Pittance to Patient Toil.” Los Angeles Times, 25 Sept. 1932: A1, with caption: Pan and Rocker Again in Use on Southland Streams. Gold Rush Days Recalled in San Gabriel Canyon. An itinerant gold buyer pays $16 an ounce for dust and tiny nuggets: Left to right, buyer, Frank Robison, Fire Warden Marshall, Charles T. Brown and M.L. Sims. Charles T. Brown, in work shirt and hat, seated on bench weighing gold on scales on wooden box, with buyer in shirt and trousers at left bending forward, holding money. Standing behind looking on: Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, foot on bench; Fire Warden Albert E. Marshall, in shirt with badges on pocket and hat; M.L. Sims, in torn shirt and pants, tool on belt, holding jars; in canyon area with mountains and trees in background. Box reads: Pentecostal Mission Comasary 4 Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Calif. - San Gabriel Canyon - Gold Mining
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0747 uclamss_1429_0747 ark:/21198/zz002db2wz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Scales Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon Robison, Frank Marshall, Albert E., 1888-1960 Sims, M. L Brown, Charles T., b. ca. 1903
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