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Description
Identifier
ov115
Title
Bodie
,
California
Creator
Unknown
;
Date Created
after
1899
Description
Although
unidentified
on the
photograph
, the
layout
of the
town
indicates
that this
mining
town
is
Bodie
,
California
.
Tailings
at
left
center
with the
Standard
stamp
mill
in
left
background
(white
building
with
chute)
.
Cluster
of
buildings
in
right
center
is
Chinatown
.
Across
the
street
from
Chinatown
is
"
Maiden
Lane
"
so
named
for the
bordellos
there.
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
Located
at
nearly
8400
feet
above
sea
level
in the
Sierra
Nevada
,
Bodie
,
California
, was a
major
center
for the
mining
of
gold
.
Gold
was
first
discovered
there in
1859
but not
until
the
late
1870s
did
the
gold
mining
industry
take
off
. From
such
mines
as the
Standard
Consolidated
and the
Bodie
Consolidated
,
some
thirty
million
dollars
worth
of
gold
and
silver
was
extracted
. By
1880
Bodie
had a
population
of
10,000
and a
reputation
as
one
of the
tougher
and
bawdier
of the
California
mining
towns
. The
decade
of the
1880s
saw
the
decline
of its
mining
industry
,
although
the
development
of the
cyanide
process
in the
1890s
for the
recovery
of
gold
and
silver
from
mine
tailings
helped
stem
the
decline
. In
1932
a
fire
destroyed
part
of
Bodie
. A
ghost
town
,
Bodie
is
preserved
as a
California
state
park
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
photograph
:
b&w
;
21
x
26
cm
Institution
Center
for the
Study
of
Los
Angeles
Research
Collection
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Identifier
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
Public
Domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Language
eng
;
Subject (Place)
Bodie
(Calif.)
;
Sierra
Nevada
(Calif
. and
Nev.)
;
Chinatown
(Bodie
,
Calif.)
;
Streets--California--Bodie
;
Ghost
towns--California--Bodie
;
Subject (Topic)
Gold
mines
and
mining--California--Bodie
;
Mine
buildings--California--Bodie--20th
century
;
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Box
3
,
Sleeve
42
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