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Title
Balancing act at Devil's Punchbowl, Valyermo
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
General view of the Devil's Punchbowl; it shows a perfectly balanced large rock of several tons, which is on the top of the mountain. Devil's Punchbowl, with an elevation of 4,750 feet, is one of the most fantastic and colorful jumble of rocks in Valyermo, California that is sometimes compared to a miniature Grand Canyon. It is a county-protected natural hiking preserve along Big Rock Creek within the Angeles National Forest, on the northern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains. Valyermo is an unincorporated town within the Antelope Valley with a population of approximately 450; it is located about 17 miles southeast of Palmdale. April 21, 1937.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068972
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 698 4x5; Devil's Punchbowl
CARL0000072840
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2364
Subject
Mountains--California, Southern
Rocks
Antelope Valley (Calif.)
Valyermo (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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