/ A mud pool bubbles at Volcano Springs, Salton Sea vicinity, 1899

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Title: A mud pool bubbles at Volcano Springs, Salton Sea vicinity, 1899
Contributor: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued: 1899
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection
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Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A photograph documenting a mudpot or mud pool bubbling up at Volcano Springs (now Mundo), seen during an inspection trip for the Southern Pacific Railroad. A depression in the mud pool sits in the middle of the image with mud bubbling around it. The shadow of a man is cast at left.
Text from negative sleeve: 597. Volcano Springs, Calif. Southern Pacific inspection trip 1899. Two views of the mud volcanoes along side the S.P.R.R. tracks near Volcano Springs. They were mud volcanoes, bubbling all the time, hot water and steam, and a sickening gas.
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Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1998_0597_002
ark:/21198/zz002hqxxq
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bubbles
Shadows--California--Salton Sea
Mud volcanoes--California
Source: West (H. H.) Collection

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