This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original Saturday Evening Post cover from November 10, 1945, showing the downtown area of Randsburg, California, a gold mining town in Kern County, Southern California. The image shows some of the businesses on Main St. (Butte Ave.), with some of the mines shown in the background.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13”x19" format is an excellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
HISTORY OF RANDSBURG, CA
The town of Randsburg is now known as a “living ghost town,” and many structures from the late 1800s are still in use there.
Randsburg (formerly Rand Camp) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Randsburg is located 17 miles south of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 3,504 feet. The population in the 2010 census was 69, down from 77 in the 2000 census.
Randsburg is located at 35°22′07″N 117°39′29″W. It is on the west side of U.S. Route 395 between Kramer Junction to the south and Ridgecrest to the north. Randsburg is in the Rand Mountains, and is separated by a ridge from the neighboring community of Johannesburg.
The gold mining bonanza known as the Rand District was born in April of 1895 when three prospectors, Frederic M. Mooers, John Singleton, and Charles A. Burcham struck a rich ledge of gold near present-day Randsburg, California.
News of the strike spread quickly, and the town of Randsburg sprouted up around the site of their claim that became the famous Yellow Aster Mine. The Yellow Aster was credited with producing $12 million in gold, and the combined Rand District produced around $40 million between 1895 and 1940. Mines in the area do still operate when commodity prices make operation profitable.
The rush to the Rand District later created the nearby mining towns of Johannesburg, and Atolia.
In January of 1898, the Randsburg Railway opened, and operated between Kramer Junction and Johannesburg, with stops at the nearby mining camps such as Fremont and Atolia (now abandoned). The Randsburg Railway ceased operation in 1933.
The sign for California Historical Landmark number 938 for the Rand Mining District reads:
NO. 938 RAND MINING DISTRICT - The Yellow Aster, or Rand, mine was discovered in April 1895 by Singleton, Burcham, and Mooers. The town of Randsburg quickly developed, followed by the supply town of Johannesburg in 1896. Both names were adopted from the profusion of minerals resembling those of the ranch mining district in South Africa. In 1907, Churchill discovered tungsten in Atolia. In June 1919, Williams and Nosser discovered the California Rand Silver Mine at Red Mountain.
