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Title: She mounts desert gems
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated June 30, 1956 reads, "Nellie McPheeters is avid rock enthusiast. She helps husband George by mounting gems in metal frames. Their house is filled with display cases neatly set up to show mineral collecting."; See images #00133151 through #00133154 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00133154
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d039_f26_i8
CARL0005576966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/64136
Subject: Hobbyists--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Rock collectors--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Tools--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Workshops--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Dwellings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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