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Title
Thunderbird Ranch, aerial view, looking north
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Aerial view of Thunderbird Ranch, located at 70737 Country Club Drive in Rancho Mirage; view is looking north, with State Route 111 on the left of the image. The loop just below center is Fairway Drive. Thunderbird Ranch, developed in the mid-1940s as a dude ranch, and was re-developed in 1951 as a Country Club with the desert's first 18-hole golf course. Photograph dated February 19, 1955.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00088043
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b21_f2_i8 (Photographic print); KHAF 161-10
CARL0004933036
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4195
Subject
Thunderbird Country Club (Rancho Mirage, Calif.)
Country clubs--California--Rancho Mirage
Golf courses--California--Rancho Mirage
State Route 111 (Calif.)
Rancho Mirage (Calif.)
Rancho Mirage (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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