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Title: Aerial view of Death Valley's Scotty's Castle and grounds
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Spence Air Photos (Firm)
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 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: Aeriel view from above of Death Valley's Scotty's Castle and grounds surrounded by mountains. Formerly called Death Valley Ranch, Scotty's Castle was built, but never completed, in the 1920s. Flamboyant cowboy, storyteller, Walter Scott, convinced Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson to invest in his (fraudulent) gold mine in the Death Valley area. Johnson actually spent time vacationing and recuperating from illness at the property, which is now a museum.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073678
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9123 8x10
CARL0000076965
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3078
Subject: Scotty's Castle
Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Dwellings--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Scott, Walter E.1872-1954
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Johnson, Albert,1904-1993

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