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. A home-made conveyer bucket, once a garbage can, arrives at the river bank with something for Joey Brandt to send through the sluice box. Joey Brandt, in hat, shirtless, back to camera, standing in hopper over stream emptying conveyer bucket, with sluice box under hopper, stream flowing into foreground, another hopper, car, trees, and mountains in background Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Calif. - San Gabriel Canyon - Gold Mining
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0754 uclamss_1429_0754 ark:/21198/zz002db342
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Gold mining equipment--California--San Gabriel Canyon Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon Brandt, Joey
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