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Title
View of the Descanso Valley, facing south
Creator
Meigs, Peveril, 1903-1979
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-05-31
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Peveril Meigs Baja California Research Materials
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Description
View of Descanso Valley from the north. The cultivable, mustard covered (dark) valley floor is being progressively destroyed by winter attacks of the arroyo from the east (left). The light area in the middle of the valley is a reentrant which was cut in the previous winter (1927). Shallow channels, cut by floods which jumped their arroyo banks, can be detected in the valley floor behind the reentrant. The trail to the south across the high measa can be seen ascending the farther slope, from right to left. [source: The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California. Plate 11a.]
Descanso washout
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
A contemporary contact print of this image is available in the album documenting the 1927 trip.
The cultivable, mustard covered (dark) valley floor is being progressively destroyed by winter attacks of the arroyo from the east (left). The light area in the middle of the valley is a reentrant which was cut in the previous winter (1927). Shallow channels, cut by floods which jumped their arroyo banks, can be detected in the valley floor behind the reentrant. The trail to the south across the high measa can be seen ascending the farther slope, from right to left
[Title, Date]. Peveril Meigs Baja California Research Materials. MSS 530. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Type
image
Format
Black and white negative; 2 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Baja California (Mexico)
Place
Baja California (Mexico)

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