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Identifier	ov151
Title	Chrysopolis, California. Mine
Creator	Unknown;
Date Created	circa 1910s
Description	Mine with mine car (on slag heap) for removing ore. Printed on velox paper. Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	The ghost town of Chrysopolis, California, is located in the Inyo Range of the Owens Valley. The original settlement began in the early 1860s but soon withered away, and the name was applied to a mining area, which received renewed development in the early 1900s because of the expansion of mining in Death Valley, Tonopah, and Goldfield. This photograph probably records mining at Chrysopolis in the 1910s, the latter stage of the intensified mining that had begun in the early 1900s. John Black, father of J. D. Black, and A. S. Lochrie had mining interests there, and this may be their mine. Voter registration lists from Big Pine in 1922 list Black's occupation as miner.
Type	image;
Physical Description	1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 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/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language	eng;
Subject (Name)	Black, John; Lochrie, A. S.;
Subject (Place)	Chrysopolis (Calif.); Inyo Mountains (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Miners--California--Inyo County; Mines and mining--California--Inyo County; Mines and mining--California--Owens Valley; Mining claims--California--Inyo County; Mining equipment--California--Inyo County; Ghost towns--California--Inyo County;
Form/Genre	Photographs;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Box 4, Sleeve 58