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| Title | Man operating a rocker in a gold mining camp, Washington, ca. 1935 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | ca. 1935 |
| Caption | The rocker is a tool invented by early gold miners to extract gold from gravel. Using a handle on the rocker to push it back and forth, the miner dumped gravel into the top part, and finer and heavier particles dropped through a screen, helped along by buckets of water. After many shovel loads of gravel were pushed through the rocker, the miner would then use his gold pan to sort out the heavy minerals and, with luck, find gold. Equipment was often improvised; in this case a barrel is put to new use as a rocker. |
| Notes | Hand written on image: Gold Mining
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): ca. 1935 |
| Subjects | Gold miners--Washington (State); Gold mining--Washington (State); Gold mining equipment--Washington (State) |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.5620.2 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
