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Title
Palms in Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903/1904
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 several stands of palm trees (Washingtonia Filifera) in Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, northeast of Palm Springs, near Indio, ca.1903-1904. There is little other vegetation in the sand except for some scrub brush in a wash at right. The rocky and sandy slopes show considerable erosion.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7905
USC-1-1-1-8032 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2290
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7905
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2290.jpg
Subject
Palms
Views
Deserts
Riverside County--General--Canyons
Canyons
Time Period
circa 1903/1904
Place
California
Riverside
USA
canyons: Chuckwalla Canyon
Source
1-45- [Microfiche number]
2290 [Accession number]
CHS-2290 [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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