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Gold miners M.L. Sims and Archie Clark with mining equipment, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932

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Title: Gold miners M.L. Sims and Archie Clark with mining equipment, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph, cropped, 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.
M.L. Sims and Archie Clark, in work shirts and hats, standing on rocky hillside with conveyer bucket, belt, and pulley assembly, with mountains and brush in background and Fire Warden Albert E. Marshall and another man in shirt and tie at far left
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Calif. - San Gabriel Canyon - Gold Mining
Text from newspaper caption: Pan and Rocker Again in Use on Southland Streams. Gold Rush Days Recalled in San Gabriel Canyon. M.L. Sims and Archie Clark send loads of gold-laden dirt down from their diggings to San Gabriel’s East Fork for washing
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0757
uclamss_1429_0757
ark:/21198/zz002db37m
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gold mining--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold mining equipment--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Marshall, Albert E., 1888-1960
Clark, Archie
Sims, M. L
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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