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Title
A desert miner standing in front of his stone cabin, near Randsburg, Kern County, California, ca.1900-1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900/1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a desert miner standing in front of his stone cabin, near Randsburg, Kern County, California, ca.1900-1920. The miner holds a shovel over his shoulders with his right hand and rests his left hand on the rock wall of his cabin. In front of him is a pot (or can?) with a lid over it. Debris is scatter across the ground (at right). A chimney juts above the roof of the cabin (in the rear).
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2781
USC-1-1-1-2849 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5998
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2781
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5998.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Miners
Mining--Miners
Mine sites
Time Period
circa 1900/1920
Place
California
Kern
Randsburg
USA
Source
1-111-83 [Microfiche number]
5998 [Accession number]
CHS-5998 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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