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