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  • Gold Ave

    Gold Ave

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    View of storefronts on Gold Avenue, Albuquerque. Just right of center, below "...Parlors" a sign says "W. Cal Brown. Photographer." Brown had a studio on Gold Ave., ca. 1882-1889. Men stand along the boardwalk with horses nearby.

    photCL 215 (3)

  • Gold Avenue looking West, no. 138

    Gold Avenue looking West, no. 138

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    Storefronts and people along Gold Avenue, Albuquerque. At center is a monument depicting a Native American man.

    photCL 215 (5)

  • Bunker Hill mansions of South Bunker Hill Ave near 4th Street

    Bunker Hill mansions of South Bunker Hill Ave near 4th Street

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    Two Victorian mansions on the west side of Bunker Hill Avenue. The man is standing in front of the clapboard sided Lady McDonald residence.

    photCL 486

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    Manassas, Orange & Alexandria RR

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    Manassas Junction, telegraph station, and mess house, March 1864. Photograph shows railroad cars on an auxiliary track with people standing nearby. One man is on top of the telegraph pole and there are two covered wagon with men and horses. This image similar to photCL 301 (28). Title on mount: Manassas O & A RR. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 60.

    photCL 301 (93)

  • Consolidated Gold Mine, Mojave, Kern County. 1912

    Consolidated Gold Mine, Mojave, Kern County. 1912

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    A panoramic view of the Consolidated Gold Mine at Mojave, in Kern County. The main mining building in the center is low, built along the side of a hill, with sheds and cylindrical structures built around it. There is also a mining structure on the far left, opening out of the ground, with a pulley system at the top. Two men, one seated and one standing, are on the side of a hill on the left, next to a pile of discarded rocks. A few dirt roads wind past the mine and into the hills in the distance. Writing in white in the bottom center reads "Photo no. 313 ; C.C. Pierce & Co ; 1572 W. Pico Blvd. ; Los Angeles, Calif." and "Consolidated Gold Mine ; Mojave, Calif."

    photCL 470 (207)

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    Dashley's Thawer. Superior Claim, Inmachuk River, Sep. 23, 1903. Nowell photo. [Man with large piece of equipment at river's edge. Gold claim(?).]

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    A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.

    photCL 395