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Title
Slab City: photo of Leonard Knight next to his truck
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
January, 1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Slab City
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Greg Durbin
Sherman George
Description
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Graphic Design and Illustration
Manuscripts and Manuscript Illuminations
Photographs
Leonard Knight in front of his painted truck showing photograph of same published in a magazine or book. Slab City or The Slabs is a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California, used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Format
Color print (photograph)
Form/Genre
Photographs
Portraits
Language
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Subject
Artists
Mountains
Deserts
Alternative lifestyles
Outsider art
Salvation Mountain
Trucks
Photographs
Portraits
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States
Knight, Leonard, 1931-
Place
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States

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