Women Panning for Gold
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Women practice panning for gold in the Spokane River. The mining school attracted women as well as men with the promise of wealth.
Source: June 9, 1932, Spokane Daily Chronicle.
This file appears in: Gold Fever
Gold Fever
In the midst of the Great Depression, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce declared that the gold rush was on in Spokane Washington. Captain J. Richard Brown, who was a mining engineer, gave 9 speeches at the relief kitchen on Trent avenue in hopes of…