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Title: Aerial view of Death Valley's Furnace Creek Ranch and the Black Mountains
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Spence Air Photos (Firm)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Aerial view looking southeast of Death Valley's Furnace Ranch and the Black Mountains. The ranch sits in an oasis of trees surrounded by the desert of Death Valley. Mountains are behind Furnace Creek Ranch which was a working ranch in the late 1800s until it was made into a hotel in the 1930s.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073668
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9113 4x5
CARL0000077120
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3087
Subject: Furnace Creek Inn (Death Valley, Calif. and Nev.)
Hotels--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Deserts--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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