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Title: Calico ruins
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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: Looking up Wall Street Canyon, where Calico's fabulous wealth was mined, we see rear views of buildings erected of red "rhyolite" cement in 1884 after the original town had burned to the ground.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071240
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9583 8x10
CARL0000074680
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3047
Subject: Dwellings--California--Calico
Ghost towns--California--Calico
Ruined buildings--California--Calico
Calico (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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