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 the "Desert Queen" sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, 1905. The sailing vehicle has 4 wheels, sails (spinnaker & mainsail) and a flag. Four passengers (3 women, 1 man) sit on the flat skeletal platform while one man rigs a sail and another man operates the steering wheel. The vessel is headed to the left. The Desert Queen was build and used by miners to cross 3 miles of dry lake. A hill is visible in the background. Compares to CHS-2215, same crew.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : transparency, photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w 20 x 25, 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) transparencies photographs
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