Name/Title
Print, PostcardEntry/Object ID
2002.17.24eDescription
Photo postcard of Charles Ferge, better known as Seldom Seen Slim, with a pipe in his mouth and a hat. This postcard was never sent, but a message was was written on the reverse.
On reverse: Seldom Seen Slim, the last of the single-blanket-and-a-burro prospectors of Death Valley and the Panamints, died at the estimated age of 86 in August 1968 and was bured at Boot Hill in Ballarat. The old prospector, whose name was Charles Ferge, was the lone resident for many long periods in the ghost town of Ballarat. (Photo by Fred Richards)
Publisher: Another Chris Card. #7760.Collection
Muir Thompson Collection