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Title: Skidoo in Death Valley
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Death Valley's gold mining camp, Skiddo. In it's heyday in 1907, the town had a newspaper, a bank, a school, a brothel, telephone service, and at least one saloon. It was prosperous for less than two years and had a population of 500. The town is surrounded by mountains.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073752
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9174 5x7
CARL0000077230
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3096
Subject: Gold mines and mining--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
California--Gold discoveries
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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