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Identifier	ov094
Title	John Black's First Business. Bishop, California
Creator	Unknown;
Date Created	circa 1888
Description	Site of first business of John Black in Bishop, California. Figure to left of tree on right may be John Black. Inscription on accompanying grocer's ticket, most likely in hand of his son J. D. Black: "WHERE JOHN BLACK STARTED BUSINESS BLACK'S August 18 1888." Reproduction of an original. Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	From French Canada, John Black bought this business, a saloon, in Bishop, California in 1888; he had come to Bishop in 1886. In 1902 he opened a saloon in Big Pine and later moved his family there. He also developed mining interests in the Chrysopolis, California area, beginning in the latter part of the 1890s. Voter registration lists from Big Pine in 1922 record his occupation as miner. John Black's wife was Rose, and the two were the parents of Rosalind and J. D. Black. John Black died sometime in 1923 at the age of fifty-eight.
Type	image;
Physical Description	1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 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;
Subject (Place)	Bishop (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Commercial buildings--California--Bishop; General stores--California--Bishop; Streets--California--Bishop; Sidewalks--Bishop--California--19th 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 3

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