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Vehicle "Desert Queen" sailing on a dry lake at Rosamond in the Mojave Desert, 1904 (CHS-2112)
Summary
Vehicle "Desert Queen" sailing on a dry lake at Rosamond in the Mojave Desert, 1904
Photograph of the "Desert Queen" sailing on a dry lake at Rosamond in the Mojave Desert, 1904. Two men are silhouetted on the low 4-wheel vehicle which is outfitted with a spinnaker and a main sail on one mast. An American flag flies behind (at right). The surrounding landscape is completely flat. "The way some miners travel across [...] for three miles in the desert."
Call number: CHS-2112
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-2112
Coverage date: 1904
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Rosamond
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 2112
Microfiche number: 1-81-56; 1-121-8
Archival file: chs_Volume148/CHS-2112.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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: 1904
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley
Legacy record ID: chs-m5365; USC-1-1-1-5478
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Kern
Subject (lcsh): Vehicles; Deserts; Flags