File:Sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the "Desert Queen", 1905 (CHS-2214).jpg

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Sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the "Desert Queen", 1905
Photograph of the "Desert Queen" sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, 1905. The sailing vehicle has 4 wheels, sails (spinnaker & mainsail) and a flag. Four passengers (3 women, 1 man) sit on the flat skeletal platform while one man rigs a sail and another man operates the steering wheel. The vessel is headed to the left. The Desert Queen was build and used by miners to cross 3 miles of dry lake. A hill is visible in the background. Compares to CHS-2215, same crew.
Call number: CHS-2214
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-2214
Coverage date: 1905
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: 2214
Microfiche number: 1-121-9; 1-81-57
Archival file: chs_Volume148/CHS-2214.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): 3 photographs : transparency, photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25, 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); transparencies; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley
Legacy record ID: chs-m5359; USC-1-1-1-5472
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Deserts; Flags; Vehicles
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25886
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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