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Title
Barrel Cacti in Devil's Playground east of Palm Springs, ca.1933
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a Barrel Cacti in Devil's Playground east of Palm Springs, ca.1933. A tall barrel cactus is shown in desert terrain to the right, a second stalk growing squatly to the right of it. In the background, still more barrel cacti can be seen at various heights, moving backwards across hilly terrain to the snow-capped mountain in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8113
USC-1-1-1-14203
USC-1-1-1-8244 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8555
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8113
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8555.jpg
Subject
Riverside--Palm Springs
Views
Deserts
Cactus
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California
San Bernardino
USA
barren lands: Devil's Playground
deserts: Mojave Desert
Source
1-77-74 [Microfiche number]
8555 [Accession number]
CHS-8555 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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