US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mrs. W. B. Corum stnads beside one of her pack mules on the Sturtevant Trail in Mt. Wilson. This photograph appears with the article, "Woman Packer Knows Sierra Madre Trails," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: B12. Text from negative sleeve: 4280 -- Mrs. Corrum of Sierra Madre Runs pack train on Sturtevant trail 12-24-35 [stamped:] DEC 31 1935 Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Corum Text from newspaper caption: She knows the Mountains! Mrs. W. B. Corum of Sierra Madre, who runs a pack train along Sturtevant Trail, and transports anything from a baby to a piano with the aid of her "cavvy" of horses, mules and burros. She has directed job four years.
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