Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior view of "The Bottle House" a house made of bottles in Rhyolite, Nevada, ca.1925. The house, built in 1905 and said to have nearly 25,000 bottles that comprise its side walls, stands at the center of the image. Its walls look as though they are made of thousands of tiny circles, showing the bottoms of the bottles. The house also sports a small porch, shingled roof, and brick chimney. A sign posted in the dusty, barren ground out front reads "The Bottle House / Preserved as a Historical Relic by the Beatty Improvement Association / Restored January 1925 by the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. / Paramount Pictures. / Do Not Molest.". Mountains are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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