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Title
Tent City, Lancaster, California
Date Created and/or Issued
2015-03-31
Publication Information
Antelope Valley Rural Museum
Contributing Institution
LA County Library
Collection
Antelope Valley Rural Museum Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Several rows of white tents in left foreground with surrounding houses and trees. Landscape visible in background. Written caption at bottom reads: Looking North--Lancaster, Cal. The tents were raised behind the Western Hotel [and used to house workers constructing the California Aqueduct in the 1910s?].
Type
image
Format
black-and-white photographs
image/jpeg
Identifier
0395a.jpg
http://cdm15952.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15952coll15/id/22
Language
English
Subject
Tents
Hotels
Place
557 W Lancaster Boulevard, Lancaster, CA 93534
Lancaster (Los Angeles county, California : inhabited place)
Los Angeles (California, United States : county)
California (United States, North and Central America : state)
United States (North and Central America, World : nation)
34.698437
-118.139033
Relation
Antelope Valley Rural Museum Collection
Provenance
Digital file contributed to the Antelope Valley Rural Museum digital collection by Walter Primmer. Physical object owned by Walter Primmer.

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