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Identifier
ov078
Title
Bodie
,
California
.
Drilling
Contest
Creator
Unknown
;
Date Created
circa
1880s
Description
Drilling
contest
at
Bodie
,
California
;
John
Black
is
recorded
as the
umpire
.
Participants
with
drills
at
bottom-right
,
around
rock
.
Mine
shaft
and
houses
on
opposite
slope
. A
copy
made
in
1952
of
original
photograph
.
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
This
photograph
shows
the
miners
of
Bodie
,
California
,
participating
in a
contest
related
to their
occupational
skills
of
mining
.
John
Black
, the
umpire
, was the
father
of
J
.
D
.
Black
and in
some
type
of
partnership
with
John
McAlpin
in
Bodie
.
Black
lived
in
Bodie
before
moving
to
Bishop
in
1886
.
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
found
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
$30,000,000
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 the
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
;
11
x
17
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
;
Subject (Place)
Bodie
(Calif.)
;
Sierra
Nevada
(Calif
. and
Nev.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Gold
miners--California--Bodie
;
Gold
mines
and
mining--California--Bodie
;
Boring--California--Bodie
;
Ghost
towns--California--Bodie
;
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Box
16
,
Sleeve
46
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