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Image / Two automobiles in Last Chance Canyon, Kern County, CA, ca.1905-1930

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Title
Two automobiles in Last Chance Canyon, Kern County, CA, ca.1905-1930
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905/1930
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 two automobiles in Last Chance Canyon, Kern County, CA, ca.1905-1930. The automobiles are visible on a wide dirt road that runs from bottom center and curves towards the right around a vertical rock canyon wall. A second canyon wall is visible behind the automobiles, while the road is lined with desert bushes. Photoprint reads: "10 miles east of Jawbone Canyon off the old road between Mojave and Randsburg". Originally, the image was captioned as "Two automobiles in Last Chance Canyon, Death Valley, ca.1900-1950".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20844
USC-1-1-1-14249 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8257
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20844
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8257.jpg
Subject
Natural features--Parks
Parks
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1905/1930
Place
California
Kern
USA
canyons: Last Chance Canyon
Source
8257 [Accession number]
CHS-8257 [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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