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Description
2008-2857 PHOTO: LOS ANGELES COUNTY: COLD BROOK CAMP Postcards created by B.D. Jackson based on family camping trips to Cold Brook Camp. Shows tents, campstove, trees, hammock, two women standing at table, chairs and open-air canopy with sign "Photographer" on it. Addressed to Mrs. W.R. Munson and dated July 19- 1912. Cold Brook Camp, located within the Angeles National Forest, very popular with campers. Started out as hunter's camp owned by R.W. Dawson. In 1901, land leased to Doc Beatty who opened hostelry called Squirrel Inn. In 1907, Dawson took over the Inn renaming it Cold Brook Camp. Eventually built hotel, cabins and tents. Was popular in early 1900's and into the 1920's.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 4/8 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001392159CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-5499
Language
English
Subject
Private camps--California--San Gabriel Mountains Stoves--California--San Gabriel Mountains Tents--California--San Gabriel Mountains Photographers--California--San Gabriel Mountains Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photographic postcards
Place
California San Gabriel Mountains Los Angeles County (Calif.) San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
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