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Antonio Chacon uses a sluice box to look for gold, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Antonio Chacon uses a sluice box to look for gold, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 11, 1938
1938-12-11
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 appears with the article, “CITY OR DESERT, GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT,” Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 1938: A2.
Text from newspaper caption: Antonio Chacon works sand through riffies in sluice box.
Text from negative sleeve: 15168—Antonio Chacon, L.A. River, Gold Digger, H-13 + H-15, Dec 11 1938, [Stamped:] DEC 15 1938.
Handwritten on negative: Antonio Chacon 12-11-38.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11876
ark:/21198/zz002h8qpc
Subject: Gold miners--California--Los Angeles
Gold mining--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Sluices--California
Chacon, Antonio, 1878-1956
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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