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Title
Twenty-mule team hauling borax in wagons from mines in Death Valley, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a twenty-mule team hauling borax in wagons from mines in Death Valley, ca.1890. They are visible on a dirt road running from the left foreground into the right background. Rocky, barren hills are visible beside the road.
Photograph taken in Mule Canyon, Calico Mountains. -- According to letter from Harold Wright, Calico Press, 6 December 1951.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11160
USC-1-1-1-11310 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1626
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11160
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1626.jpg
Subject
Industry--Borax (salt)
Salt industry and trade
Salt lakes
Borax mines and mining
Valleys
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
USA
canyons: Mule Canyon
mountain ranges: Calico Mountains
deserts: Death Valley
Source
1-104-9 [Microfiche number]
1626 [Accession number]
CHS-1626 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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