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Description:: Related to the article “Gold Gleaners Ply Trade in San Gabriel Canyon, Cream Skimmed in Early Days, but Ancient Diggings Still Yield Pittance to Patient Toil.” Los Angeles Times, 25 Sept. 1932: A1.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and hat with headlamp, and Charles T. Brown, in workshirt and hat smoking cigarette, both seated on bench behind box with scales with gold nuggets on tray, with gold pan partially visible at left and tents, trees, and mountains in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: M.L. Sims, in hat, torn shirt and pants, and glasses, standing with wheelbarrow, shovel, and one other tool, on rocky hillside with mountains in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Frank Robison, in sleeveless shirt and hat with headlamp, seated on rocks over stream holding gold pan; Mrs. Frank Robison, in torn shirt and pants, squatting on rocks behind him; hopper built over stream in background, sluice box weighted by rocks at right, stream flowing into foreground, trees and mountains in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lawrence Treece and Newell Leiser, in overalls, seated on cot, and Irene Treece, in checked dress, standing at wood-burning stove, inside cabin, with window above stove, pot, teakettle, and bowl on stove, egg carton and soap box under stove, buckets in foreground
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mountains and cliffs, with pipes running down cliffs at right, cars and campsite visible at lower right
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charles T. Brown, in work shirt and hat, seated near hopper, displaying pan of gold dust
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Gold Gleaners Ply Trade in San Gabriel Canyon, Cream Skimmed in Early Days, but Ancient Diggings Still Yield Pittance to Patient Toil.” Los Angeles Times, 25 Sept. 1932: A1, with caption: Pan and Rocker Again in Use on Southland Streams. Gold Rush Days Recalled in San Gabriel Canyon. An itinerant gold buyer pays $16 an ounce for dust and tiny nuggets: Left to right, buyer, Frank Robison, Fire Warden Marshall, Charles T. Brown and M.L. Sims.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of mining camp and surrounding mountainous area, with about 16 tents and small buildings, about 8 cars, stream in foreground
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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