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Title: Badwater in Death Valley
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Frashers Inc
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Badwater in Death Valley is at the lowest point in the Western hemisphere at 280 feet below sea level. The pool has animal and plant life, including the Badwater snail. The mountains are in the distance and have snow at the tops. In summer it is typical for the temperature to reach 120 degrees during the day.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073659
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9133 4x5
CARL0000077150
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3094
Subject: Mountains--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Snow--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Animals--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Plants--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Pools--Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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