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Identifier	ov159
Title	John Black's Saloon
Creator	Unknown;
Date Created	between 1894 and 1898
Description	Saloon, with patrons and bartender. Picture of unidentified woman on wall to left of mirror. Dog in center of picture. Standing left to right: John Black, bartender; John MacKay; Bert Merithew; John Mallory, Louis Munzinger; Bart McGee. Seated left to right: Billie Birchim (sic), J. D. Black (in lap of Billie Birchim), Jim McBride (with moustache); John Clarke (with white beard); Little Green, "the Barber." Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	John Black operated this saloon in Bishop, California. Voter registration lists from Inyo County record a Louis Munzinger as residing in Bishop in 1922, 1926 and 1928. According to these records, John Mallory was a blacksmith there in 1922 and a James McBride lived in Bishop in 1922 and 1926. The Birchims were a pioneer family of ranchers in Bishop, with a son named Will, who is perhaps our "Billie." As for Black, he bought this saloon in 1888. In 1902 he opened a saloon Big Pine, and later moved his family there. He also developed mining interests in the Chrysopolis, California area, beginning in the late 1890s. While possibly a miner in Virginia City, Nevada, John Black met Rose Carroll and married her in Bridgeport, California; the couple resided in Bodie, California, until moving to Bishop, in 1886. He was the father of J. D. Black (1893-1960), seen here in the photograph. John Black died in 1923.
Type	image;
Physical Description	1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 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 (Name)	Black, John; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; ;
Subject (Place)	Bishop (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--Bishop; Saloons--California--Bishop; Drinking customs--California--Bishop; Manners and customs--California--Bishop--19th century; Bartenders; Eating and drinking;
Form/Genre	Photographs;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Box 11ov, Sleeve 1

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