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Title: Old Ehrenberg
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: View of run-down adobe buildings located in the desert community of Ehrenberg, Arizona. Ehrenberg is located on the Colorado River (partially visible in the background), near the border with California and Interstate 10. The town, a former Army Fort, has often been labeled a ghost town and is a former home of the late Hadji "Hi Jolly" Ali (1828-1902). "Hi Jolly" was a Greek-Syrian specialist and first camel drivers hired by US Army in 1856 to lead the camel driver experiment in the Southwest. Photo dated: November 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067763
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 616 4x5
CARL0000072756
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2281
Subject: Adobe houses--Arizona--Ehrenberg
Deserts--Arizona--Ehrenberg
Ehrenberg (Ariz.)
Little Colorado River (N.M. and Ariz.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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