Chuckawalla Slim poses with his mobile trading post, Monrovia, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Chuckawalla Slim poses with his mobile trading post, Monrovia, 1935

Date Created

December 6, 1935

Date

1935-12-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Motorized Schooner Used by 'Rockologist'," Los Angeles Times, 06 Dec 1935: 14.
Chuckawalla Slim returns to Monrovia in a truck which he also lives out of to sell and trade rocks, minerals, gems, snake skins, Indian relics and other items that he collects.
Chuckawalla Slim wears a hat and bandana as he stands outside of a covered wheeled wagon with his name and profession emblazoned across it.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Chuckawalla Slim
Text from newspaper caption: "Chuckawalla Slim," a desert trader, who utilizes a motorized covered wagon in place of the traditional burro, is back in Monrovia with his rocks and relics. "Chuckawalla" is a rare type of desert character, who talks collegiate American instead of the picturesque lingo of the Old West.
Text from negative sleeve: 4210 - "Chuckawalla Slim" Rockologist desert rat. Buys + sells minerals 12-2-35 [stamped:] Dec 26 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Slim, Chuckawalla, 1901-1975

Location

Monrovia (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mobile homes
Stone quarrying--California--Monrovia
Merchants--California--Monrovia