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Title
Twenty-mule team hauling borax out of Death Valley to the railroad, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 a wagon out of Death Valley to the railroad, ca.1900. The team, which is stirring up considerable dust, is moving down a dirt path towards the right along barren rocky hills.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15123 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1618
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15123
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1618.jpg
Subject
Industry--Borax (salt)
Transportation
Borax and Salt Industry
Salt industry and trade
Borax mines and mining
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
deserts: Death Valley
Source
1-104-8 [Microfiche number]
1618 [Accession number]
CHS-1618 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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