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English: "The Desert Queen" sailing on the Mojave Desert, 1902
  • Photograph of the "Desert Queen" sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in 1902. (copyright John L. VonBlum "The Buffalo Sunday Morning News" Feb. 9, 1902 p11)
  • The Desert Queen was built and used by miners to cross three miles of the dry lake. The sailing vehicle has four wheels, sails (spinnaker & mainsail) and a flag.
  • Five passengers (three women, two men) sit on the flat skeletal platform while one man, smoking a pipe, operates the steering wheel. The vessel is headed to the left.


Call number: CHS-2215
Photographer:
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887
:Filename: CHS-2215
Coverage date: 1905
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: 2215
Microfiche number: 1-121-10; 1-81-58
Archival file: chs_Volume148/CHS-2215.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photograph : photonegatives, glass photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 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: 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m5363; USC-1-1-1-5476
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley
Subject (lcsh): Vehicles; Deserts; Flags
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25889
Author
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887

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