Death Valley Automobile Trip, 1926

Summary

Title:

Death Valley Automobile Trip

Dates:

1926

Extent:

1 album (76 photographic prints); 14 x 23 cm. 76 digital objects

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Death Valley automobile trip, BANC PIC 1978.027--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The Death Valley Automobile Trip photograph album containing 76 prints appears to be the record of a sightseeing trip made from Los Angeles to Death Valley in 1926. A written record--in the form of diary entries--is also included and consists of a series of detailed captions describing the landscape, landmarks, and individuals encountered in Death Valley. Neither the diarist nor the photographer is identified. The album displays no one emphasis: it consists of a broad range of photographs, from the automobiles and sighteseers to the landscape, abandoned mines, schoolhouses, hotels and homesteads of Death Valley.

Acquisition information:

The Death Valley Automobile Trip photo album was purchased in 1978.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Alternative form available:

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Automobile travel -- Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs.
Calico (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works.
Deserts -- California -- Photographs.
Ghost towns -- California -- Photographs.
Ghost towns -- Nevada -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs.
Rhyolite (Nev.) -- Pictorial works.
Sightseers -- California.

Names:

California Heritage Project. CU-BANC
Online Archive of California.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by James Ryan.

Date Prepared:

© 1996

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: January 2016

Restrictions:

Collection stored off-site. Advance notice required for use.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Death Valley automobile trip, BANC PIC 1978.027--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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