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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated October 3, 1949 reads, "The Sierras, where this picture was taken, are her playground." The article partially reads, "The first woman to scale every Pacific Coast Mountain over 14,000 feet high is a Sherman Oaks attorney who, characteristically, lives in a hilltop home--and walks up the hill on her way from work. She is Freda Walbrecht...Some of the world's greatest peaks--Fujiyama, Popocatepetal, Oriziba, Ixtaccihuatl--have dwindled under her ice axe. She has stood in the ice-and-granite world atop all fifteen of the West's tallest mountains, and has climbed 140 of the 200 tallest peaks in Southern California."; See images #00133222 through #00133223 for all photos in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Mountaineering--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Mountaineers--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Women--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Mountains--California, Southern Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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