Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a man [G.B. Harney?] inspecting sacks of magnesium ready for shipment at Magnesium Station near Death Valley, ca.1922-1926. At left, a man in a suit makes his way across a wooden walkway, his left hand lightly touching one of the numerous stacked bags to the right. A road and desert can be seen in the background. Writing on photo reads: "Bagged magnesium stacked at Magnesium Station, the junction point between the Trona Railway and the monorail which is used to transport it from the natural deposits on the west side of Death Valley, thirty miles away".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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