John Swanson panning for gold, San Gabriel Canyon, 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- John Swanson panning for gold, San Gabriel Canyon, 1930
- Date Created
- 1930
- Date
- 1930
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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After many years working as a miner and appearing in several Hollywood pictures over the years John Swanson has decided to return to his home in Alaska.
Photograph appears with the article, "And Did Yon Like Hollywood?" Los Angeles Times, 01 May 1930: A5.
John sits in a shallow stream of water resting his feet on two large rocks. He holds a large pan in front of him above the water. A lean-to can be seen in the background amongst several mounds of rocks. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Swanson, John see San Gabriel dam Site 2669-
Handwritten on negative: John Swanson John Swanson
Text from newspaper caption: John Swanson
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Swanson, John, 1869-1963
- Location
- San Gabriel Canyon (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Rocks--California--San Gabriel
Gold mining--California--San Gabriel Canyon
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9187
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dh6nh
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .