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Placer miner on the Colorado River near Lees Ferry, ca.1930
Photograph (close-up) of a placer miner on the Colorado River near Lees Ferry, ca.1930. The miner squats on small stones in the shallow water dipping a pan into the river. He has a moustache and short beard and wears a long-sleeved shirt, pants, shoes, and a worn hat.
Call number: CHS-4707
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4707
Coverage date: 1925/1935
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-111-38
Archival file: chs_Volume98/CHS-4707.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative,, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 25 x 20 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Accession number: 4707
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Identifying number: unidentified no: James-704
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1925/1935
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m17021; USC-1-1-1-14113; USC-1-1-1-14262
Geographic subject: rivers: Colorado River
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Colorado River -- Marble Canyon; Mining -- Miners
Subject (lcsh): Parks; Canyons; Rivers
Date 1925/1935 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17036
Author George Wharton James, 1858—1923
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