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Title: Signal rock in Palm Canyon
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
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: The rock was orignially used by local Cahuilla Indians to signal fires, which could be seen for miles, both through the canyon and out into the valley below.
An automobile travels past a large rock as seen from the road that travels to the top of Palm Canyon, near Palm Springs and on the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.; For similar view, see image 00067772.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00072734
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Palm Canyon; A-007-371 4x5
CARL0000076677
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114859
Subject: Rocks--California--Riverside County
Automobiles--California--Riverside County
Canyons--California--Riverside County
Desert plants--California--Riverside County
Unincorporated areas--California--Riverside County
Palm Canyon (Riverside County, Calif.)
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California

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