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Description
"Chinese Sam" was a favorite janitor at the reduction works. When he died in 1889, the Quicksilver Mining Company assumed the costs for his funeral and the miners took up a collection to pay for passage for his family back to China.
Type
image
Format
Black & White|Glass
Identifier
EDF39528-5593-4352-AB21-099272322461 1979-251-13
Subject
Chinese (LCSH) Employees Cleaning personnel New Almaden Mines (LCSH)
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