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Title
Stovepipe Wells Hotel in Death Valley
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator
Walter S. Craig Photograph
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1939
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
View from porch of Stovepipe Wells Hotel at the western highway entrance (Townes Pass). Mountains are in the distance. Stovepipe Wells is a small way-station in the northern part of Death Valley, California. Close to town are some fairly large and accessible sand dunes. The sand dunes are roughly 7 miles long in the east-west axis. They are located in the space between Salt Creek and Emigrant Wash.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00073673
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9158 8x10
CARL0000077755
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3107
Subject
Hotels--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Sand dunes--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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