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Title: Mertie West and other visitors enter the Ryan Borax Mine, Death Valley National Park vicinity, 1947
Contributor: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued: March, 1947
1947-03
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.
Photograph of Mertie West and other sightseers entering the Ryan Borax Mine. Mertie West stands nearest to camera at right. She walks with her back to the camera. Further ahead of her, 5 others walk into the entrance of a mine. The mine entrance is viewed close-up. Rocks surround the lumber, post-and-lintel entryway. Beyond the entrance, the mine tunnel extends back beneath the rocks and into shadow.
Text from negative sleeve: 2270. Death Valley Trip. March 1947. Entrance to Ryan Borax Mine. Mertie West at extreme right.
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1998_2270_001
ark:/21198/zz002j36fp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sightseers--California--Death Valley National Park
Mining--California--Death Valley National Park
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Source: West (H. H.) Collection

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