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Title
Postcard showing a panoramic view of Ryan, a mining camp in the Death Valley, California, ca.1920
Creator
Willard, Stephen H
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a postcard showing a panoramic view of Ryan, a mining camp in the Death Valley, California, ca.1920. Several small homes stand on three separate levels cut into the jagged mountainside at center. A set of mining car tracks winds around the rock wall on the far left. The postcard is addressed to Miss M. R. Gomes and family, 349 Edgeware Road, Los Angeles, California. It is postmarked in the city of Ryan, Inyo County, California on November 13, 1920.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: photoprint, b&w
10 x 15 cm.
photographic prints
photographic postcards
Identifier
chs-m7332
USC-0-1-1-7461 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41225
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7332
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41225.jpg
Subject
Inyo County--General
Views
Mines and mineral resources
Mountains
Mine sites
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
Inyo
Ryan
USA
Source
41225 [Accession number]
CHS-41225 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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