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Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch, who climbed Mount Whitney, pose holding walking sticks, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch, who climbed Mount Whitney, pose holding walking sticks, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa October 1935]
1935-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch pose holding walking sticks. Both have one foot up on an object (Herring, a box of some sort, Gooch, two buckets) and they both wear boots and shorts.
Text from newspaper caption: Girl Conquerors of Mt. Whitney: They challenge any other girls to equal their record. Nell Herring, left, and Mary Nan Gooch, right, students of Compton Junior College, who recently climbed Mt. Whitney alone to the height of 14,496.811 feet. They hiked in from Giant Forest and, among other adventures, lost their camera when it fell off their pack donkey's back. They say they doubt whether the trip has been made before by two unaccompanied girls under 20 [Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 1935: 8]
Handwritten on negative: Mary Nan Gooch. Nell Herring.
Text from negative sleeve: 3050- Nell Herring, left, Mary Nan Gooch, right, of Compton. Only girls to climb Mt. Whitney. 11-30-35. [Stamped:] Dec...1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10806
ark:/21198/zz002h9x2d
Subject: Mountaineering--California
Herring, Nell
Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Gooch, Mary Nan
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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