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Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948

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Title: Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948
Alternative Title: G.S.M. mural research tour with Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1948
1948-08
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Artists Hale Woodruff (L) and Charles Alston (R) at the landmark at Beckwourth Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with notebooks or sketchbooks. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f16_001.tif
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Subject: African American artists
Beckwourth Trail (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountain passes
Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co
Woodruff, Hale, 1900-1980
Alston, Charles, 1907-1977
Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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