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File:Twenty-mule team hauling borax out of Death Valley to the railroad, ca.1900 (CHS-1618).jpg

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Twenty-mule team hauling borax out of Death Valley to the railroad, ca.1900
Photograph of a twenty-mule team hauling borax in a wagon out of Death Valley to the railroad, ca.1900. The team, which is stirring up considerable dust, is moving down a dirt path towards the right along barren rocky hills.
Call number: CHS-1618
Filename: CHS-1618
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1618
Microfiche number: 1-104-8
Archival file: chs_Volume92/CHS-1618.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): deserts
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m15123
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject: deserts: Death Valley
Subject (lcsh): Salt industry and trade; Borax mines and mining
Subject: Industry -- Borax (salt); Transportation; Borax and Salt Industry
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/13937
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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