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After the Gold Rush: Workers discover artifacts from the boom days in 1880s San Francisco

Mail & Guardian Online | December 26, 2011 | 3:40 pm Europe 

Artifacts from the heady days of the Californian Gold Rush have been unearthed by workers digging San Francisco's multi-billion dollar transport terminal. They include clay opium pipes from a Chinese laundry, French perfume bottles, a chipped porcelain chamber pot found in an outhouse...

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