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Title: Swimming pool at Death Valley's Furnace Creek Inn
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Walter S. Craig Photograph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Hotel guests enjoy the swimming pool at the Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley. The pool is enclosed by a brick wall which includes a fireplace and open arches one can view through to the surrounding mountains and desert. Guests swim in the pool and lounge in chairs on the grass at the poolside. Palm trees stand next to the wall at the long end of the pool. The hotel opened in 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073660
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9169 4x5
CARL0000077139
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3093
Subject: Furnace Creek Inn (Death Valley, Calif. and Nev.)
Hotels--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Swimming pools--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Palms--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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