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Death Valley Automobile Trip

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

The Death Valley Automobile Trip photograph album containing 76 prints appears to be the record of a sightseeing trip made from Los Angeles to Death Valley in 1926. A written record--in the form of diary entries--is also included and consists of a series of detailed captions describing the landscape, landmarks, and individuals encountered in Death Valley. Neither the diarist nor the photographer is identified. The album displays no one emphasis: it consists of a broad range of photographs, from the automobiles and sighteseers to the landscape, abandoned mines, schoolhouses, hotels and homesteads of Death Valley.... View collection guide.

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76 items found in this collection

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After seeing the town house we went back to the depot got …
And arrived at the place in the picture on the opposite page …
The back porch of the Bottle House. Bottles were free and many …
Beatty Nevada six miles from Rhyolite. Rhyolite's water was all pumped from …
Building material was so scarce in Rhyolite that most anything went, here …
Calico. Mr. and Mrs. John Lane the sole survivors of a population …
A camp site on the desert
The Church of Rhyolite, the only building that had all of its …
Crossing the Devils Golf Course
Death Valley 1908
Death Valley. In 1876 Government Surveyors found this old wagon in the …
Death Valley. Introducing the much talked of "Death Valley Scotty" whose correct …
A Desert Scene
The Devils Golf Course. A mixture of many minerals in which salt …
Dust so deep here that the fliverer almost sank out of sight
Entrance to the Silver King mine
Furnace Creek--used to irrigate Furnace Creek Ranch; Furnace Creek
The grave of James Dayton; A driver of a twenty mule team …
Here is another Bottle House. The weather here is so dry that …
Here Superstitious Canyon rivals Red Rock Canyon in its many colors and …
The Hotel had fine stairways in it all rotting away for lack …
In the sand swept desert
The Indian Children at Furnace Creek Ranch
The insides of these buildings were littered with glass evidently there were …
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