A man with two burros carrying gold prospecting equipment, a rifle and other goods. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Title supplied by cataloger. Monsen's typed label on back says: "Death Valley, Inyo County, California. A quarter of a century ago the Grub-staked Prospector was in evidence throughout the desert region. The character seen in the picture, Pete Dailey, had wandered over the California, Nevada and Arizona deserts for more than twenty years." [Date taken from caption on duplicate print in the Charles E. Shelton Collection of Photographs of the Southwest, ca. 1865-1961, UCLA Special Collections.]
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image
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image/jpeg
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1 photograph : black and white print ; 32.5 x 42 cm
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