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Title: Devil's Punchbowl, Valyermo
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: General view of the Devil's Punchbowl, with Big Pines visible in the background. Devil's Punchbowl, with an elevation of 4,750 feet, is one of the most fantastic and colorful jumble of rocks in Valyermo, California that is sometimes compared to a miniature Grand Canyon. It is a county-protected natural hiking preserve along Big Rock Creek within the Angeles National Forest, on the northern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains. Valyermo is an unincorporated town within the Antelope Valley with a population of approximately 450; it is located about 17 miles southeast of Palmdale. April 21, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068974
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 696 4x5; Devil's Punchbowl
CARL0000072835
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2367
Subject: Mountains--California, Southern
Rocks
Antelope Valley (Calif.)
Valyermo (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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