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Title: Tobogganer at Big Pines Camp
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1935
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; "Let 'er go. There is no age limit for tobogganists at Big Pines camp, los Angeles county playground. Note the smile" affixed to the front of the image.
Big Pines Recreation Camp (elevation 6,862) was developed in 1923 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Department of Parks and Recreation. It became a year-round resort with crowds of up to 10,000 on many weekends. Big Pines is located four miles west of Wrightwood in the Angeles National Forest. In 1940 Los Angeles County transferred the land to the U.S. Forest Service. Big Pines continues to be a popular recreation area, with three ski resorts, campgrounds and Jackson Lake.
A young tobogganer waves as he rides down a small slope in a Highway Oysters crate at Big Pines Camp.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00070924
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6080) 4x5; Big Pines.
CARL0000078611
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110842
Subject: Toddlers--California--Big Pines Camp
Tobogganing--California--Big Pines Camp
Winter sports--California--Big Pines Camp
Mountains--California, Southern
Big Pines Camp (Calif.)

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