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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of "Black Bart Rock" standing along the roadside. The road stretches across the foreground on an upward angle from left to right. Just beyond the shoulder, Black Bart Rock sits atop a small mound, left-of-center. A sign posted to the right of the rock reads, "'BLACK BART ROCK' WHERE EARLY DAY HIGHWAYMEN HELD UP STAGES." Text from negative sleeve: 1621. Yellowstone trip, 1942. Saturday, July 4, 1942. 1. Scenery along the Coast below Crescent City. Our car in foreground. 2. A rock alongside the road with a sign saying Black Bart and other stage robbers used to hide behind it and stop the stages. 3. A drinking fount on the road. 4. Eel River. Quite a stream. There are two men fishing in the stream. They are on the rocks about the middle of the picture. 5. Mertie West goes in an abandoned home yard at Cloverdale, Calif. and picks some plums. 5 films. [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1621_002 ark:/21198/zz002htpj0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Historic sites--California--Mendocino County Boulders--California
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