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Title: Where Death Valley Pageant will be staged
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The pageant refers to the one program of a series of Centennial celebrations to honor those who helped found the State of California. The event, held in Desolation Canyon and attended by thousands of visitors from California and Nevada, included a portrayal of the experiences of the Manly-Jayhawker party in Death Valley during 1849-1850.
Photograph caption dated December 2, 1949 reads, "Members of the production staff inspect site of colorful outdoor amphitheater in Desolation Canyon, near Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley, where the spectacular Death Valley pageant will be staged tomorrow afternoon. Left tor right, James Tracy, T. R. Goodwin, Sterling Stevens, L.D. Mitchell."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094498
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005026280
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29124
Subject: Pageants--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Deserts--California, Southern
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
California--Politics and government
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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