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Gold miners Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robison panning for gold, San Gabriel Canyon, 1932

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Title: Gold miners Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robison panning for gold, 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.
Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, seated on rocks over stream holding gold pan; Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and pants, squatting on rocks behind him; hopper built over stream in background, sluice box weighted by rocks at right, stream flowing into foreground, two other men at left, trees and mountains in background
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. Gold! But not enough to get excited about, agree Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robison, recently of Oklahoma.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Calif. - San Gabriel Canyon - Gold Mining
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0758
uclamss_1429_0758
ark:/21198/zz002db384
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gold mining--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold miners--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold mining equipment--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Gold panning--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Robison, Frank
Robison, Frank, Mrs
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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