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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West and Wes Witherby standing beside the pool at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park. The pool extends from the left and towards the right across the foreground and the mid-ground. In the distance at center, Mertie West and Wes Witherby stand along the pool's edge. Both face left, towards the pool. Several other visitors to the pool stand in a couple of groups to the left of them around the pool's edge. Behind the sightseers, 5 cars sit in a parking lot that stretches across the image in the distance. Rocky mountainsides stretch across the background. Text from negative sleeve: 2261. Death Valley March 1947 Bad Water sign. Pool at Bad Water. Right to Left Wes Witherby, Mertie West. Witherby and car near Bad Water 3 filmd [sic]
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2261_002 ark:/21198/zz002j35qb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Basins (Bodies of water)--California--Death Valley National Park Pools--California--Death Valley National Park Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Witherby, Warren Wesley, 1871-1948
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