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Photograph album of historical reenactment of 20 mule team carrying borax in Death Valley, California
Author
Title
[Photograph album of historical reenactment of 20 mule team carrying borax in Death Valley, California].
Production
Pomona, California : Frasher Fotos, [1936]
Physical Description
39 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 18 x 42 cm and smaller
Notes
Captions in the negative.
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation from front cover.
Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Printed on cover: "Frasher Fotos / Pomona, Calif."
Captions in English.
Provenance
Formerly owned by W. W. Cahill. Purchased from Michael Vinson on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2015.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Frasher Fotos (also known as Frashers Inc.), photography studio, was started by Burton Frasher (1888-1955) in Lordsburg, California, in 1914. In 1921, Frasher moved his studio to Pomona and began publishing real photo postcards of the Southwest.
Summary
Photograph album with photographs produced by Frashers Inc. of a 1936 reenactment of the 20-mule teams used by William Tell Coleman's Harmony Borax Works to haul borax out of Death Valley, California, from 1883 to 1889.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2019
References
Frashers Inc., Photograph Album of Historical Reenactment of 20 Mule Team Carrying Borax in Death Valley, California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Frashers Inc., Photograph Album of Historical Reenactment of 20 Mule Team Carrying Borax in Death Valley, California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
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