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Title: Cooling off in Tahquitz Wash
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated March 16, 1932 reads, "The newest styles in bathing suits hold sway even on the desert, for these beauties just have built an 'ol' swimmin' hole' in the wash from Tahquitz falls, near Palm Springs. The girls rode horseback from Palm Springs to the pool, splash in the pool, and obtain desert 'sun-tans.' Left to right, Virginia Kami of Los Angeles, Nancy Dern of Toledo, Ohio; Louise Bramlette of Palm Springs and Sally Dern of Toledo."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094527
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005021633
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29335
Subject: Women--California--Palm Springs
Outdoor recreation--California--Palm Springs
Alluvial streams--California--Palm Springs
Horses--California--Palm Springs
Horsemanship--California--Palm Springs
Tahquitz Wash (Riverside County, Calif.)
Palm Springs (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1931-1940

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